Vostok 3 carried cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev into low Earth orbit from Baikonur on 11 August 1962 aboard a Vostok-K for nearly four days. Paired with Vostok 4 the next day, it was the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft crewed mission and set a then-record endurance of 64 orbits.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 13 Vostok-K flights
- Date and time
- 11 August 1962, 08:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-K
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1962-036
- Launches in 1962
- 43rd of 81
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