Vostok 3KA spacecraft carried Yuri Gagarin and other Vostok cosmonauts into space in the early 1960s. Astronauts flew two suborbital missions and four orbital missions in Mercury capsules from 1961 through 1963.

These models are on display in the National Air and Space Museum's Space Race gallery.

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Eric Long

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2011-01042

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