The
Voskhod (,
"Sunrise") was a
spacecraft built by the
Soviet Union's space program for
human spaceflight as part of the
Voskhod programme. It was a development of and a follow-on to the
Vostok spacecraft. Voskhod 1 was used for a three manned flight whereas Voskhod 2 had a crew of two. They consisted of a spherical descent module (diameter 2.3 meters), which housed the
cosmonauts, and instruments, and a conical equipment module (mass 2.27 tonnes, 2.25 m long, 2.43 m wide), which contained propellant and the engine system. Voskhod was superseded by the
Soyuz spacecraft in 1967.