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soup, as though the cosmonaut was preparing it. Making soup would not have been possible in zero gravity, and the
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was killed in a fire during a training exercise in an oxygen-rich isolation chamber. It's not clear whether other cosmonauts were told of his death; the media didn't learn of
Bondarenko's death - or even of his existence - until many years later, in 1986.
563:. A major difference between the 3KA-2 and 3KA-3 spacecraft was that the 3KA-2 version, like all uncrewed Vostok spacecraft, was equipped with a self-destruct system, in the event it reentered the atmosphere over foreign territory.
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691:"Launch Log"
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67:1961 Iota 1
1518:Categories
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1401:Westford 1
1291:Transit 4A
1209:Transit 3B
1194:Explorer 9
891:References
880:1330888409
845:. Reuters.
430:Vostok 3KA
418:Background
412:Zvezdochka
381:Sputnik 10
254:Geocentric
131:Vostok-3KA
51:Technology
49:Biological
37:Sputnik 10
1500:underline
1482:DS-1 No.2
1414:DS-1 No.1
1068:Cancelled
872:0190-8286
577:Sotheby's
573:auctioned
401:mannequin
264:Low Earth
232: UTC
179: UTC
79:1961-009A
73:COSPAR ID
1488:FTV-2203
1447:Ranger 2
1354:Ranger 1
1343:Vostok 2
1296:SOLRAD 3
1254:Vostok 1
1189:Venera 1
1059:Vostok 6
1054:Vostok 5
1049:Vostok 4
1044:Vostok 3
1039:Vostok 2
1034:Vostok 1
972:Uncrewed
714:"Vostok"
603:See also
581:Vostok 1
553:Vostok 1
544:—
510:beetroot
466:Site 1/5
462:Vostok-K
397:Vostok 1
371:meaning
350:Vostok 1
199:Baikonur
188:Vostok-K
56:Operator
1504:italics
1476:OSCAR 1
1453:Samos 4
1396:Midas 4
1370:Samos 3
1323:Midas 3
1318:TIROS-3
1301:Injun 1
1214:LOFTI-1
1179:Samos 2
1085:Related
901:. NASA.
724:28 July
697:28 July
675:. NASA.
503:borscht
486:Izhevsk
468:at the
448:Mission
365:Russian
275:0.00501
226: (
173: (
94:SATCAT
1167:1962 →
1152:← 1960
1027:Crewed
923:
878:
870:
639:Zond 5
530:Legacy
410:named
385:Soviet
311:Period
260:Regime
184:Rocket
1442:TRAAC
1273:S-45A
646:Notes
505:, an
375:) or
321:Epoch
190:8K72K
141:OKB-1
34:Names
1307:S-55
1220:S-45
1160:1961
921:ISBN
876:OCLC
868:ISSN
726:2010
699:2010
406:, a
585:USD
575:at
408:dog
202:1/5
96:no.
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