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Vostok 1
Vostok 1
(,
East 1
or
Orient
1
) was the first spaceflight of the
Vostok programme
and the first
human spaceflight
in history. The
Vostok 3KA
space capsule
was launched on April 12, 1961 from
Baikonur Cosmodrome
with
Soviet
cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin
, making him the first human to cross into
outer space
.
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