Vostok Scrapbook
Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
The former Soviet Union began manned space flight on April 12, 1961, when they launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit around the Earth aboard the Vostok space capsule. The single-seat Vostok remained in use for five more flights, until 1964, when it was replaced with the multi-seater space capsule Voskhod.
Identifier
NASM.XXXX.0583
Date
1961-1964
Provenance
Frank Winter, Gift, 1996, XXXX-0583, unknown
Extent
0.1 Cubic feet ((1 scrapbook))
Restrictions
No restrictions on access
General
NASMrev
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Clippings
Drawings
Scrapbooks
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a variety of documentation pertaining to the Vostok capsule. Included are: engineering drawings by Donald J. Ritchie of the capsule, the cabin instrument panel, the cabin control panel and the ejection seat; detailed pencil drawings of the capsule and the cabin instrumentation, in English and in Russian, most are signed and dated; an article from 'Aviation Week and Space Technology' May 31, 1965, magazine and newspaper clippings; and sixty-five black and white photographs of the capsule, cabin instrument panel, cabin control panel, ejection seat, and space suit.
Genre/Form
Photographs
Clippings
Drawings
Scrapbooks
Rights
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
Names
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich, 1934-1968
Topic
Astronautics
Vostok (manned satellite)
Manned space flight
Astronauts
Space flight
Place
Outer space -- Exploration -- Soviet Union
Outer space -- Exploration
Archival Repository
National Air and Space Museum Archives
