Vostok 1 carried cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the first human orbital spaceflight, one orbit lasting about 108 minutes from Baikonur. After reentry the equipment module delayed separation; Gagarin ejected and parachuted separately as planned for the hard-landing design.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 13 Vostok-K flights
- Date and time
- 12 April 1961, 06:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-K
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1961-012
- Launches in 1961
- 14th of 50
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