Vostok 4 carried cosmonaut Pavel Popovich into low Earth orbit from Baikonur on 12 August 1962 aboard a Vostok-K, completing the first joint multi-crew spaceflight with Vostok 3. The mission ended early after a ground-to-crew codeword requesting landing was used by mistake.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 13 Vostok-K flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 1962, 08:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-K
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1962-037
- Launches in 1962
- 44th of 81
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