Vostok 4 (, Orient 4 or East 4 ) was a mission in the Soviet space program.

With the fall of Krushchev in 1964, Korolyov was given complete control of the manned space program.

The exhibit was closed due to damage from Hurricane Sandy.

The R 7 was also known by its GURVO designation 8K71 as well as the T 3, and M 104, and Type A.

The engines would be throttled down at T 85 seconds in the hope of reducing structural loads.

The spacecraft was expected to sell for 2 10 million USD., and was sold for 2,882,500 USD.

The hatch proved to be as stubborn to relatch as it was to open.

NASA agreed, and the patches got the generic name of Cooper patch.

It is on a long term loan from the Smithsonian Institution.

Malfunctions began some of the thrusters stopped working.

Armstrong and Scott both designed the flight patch.

This is one of the few crew patches without the crew's name.

Finally, the star on the right marks Dick Gordon's spacewalk.

Lovell's voice is used for the exhibit's recorded narration.

Following an emergency spacewalk, Kvant fully docked to the station on April 11.

Suffered a landing system malfunction, causing its descent module to turnover.

Soyuz T 15, a mission to ferry equipment from Salyut 7 to Mir, which had to manually maneuver and dock to Mir.

Span 10.70 m (35.10 ft).

D 12 also failed as it was an investigation of controlling the AMU.

Vostok 2 (, Orient 2 or East 2 ) was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961 to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body.

In January 1961, Shepard was chosen for the first American manned mission into space.

Mission parameters Mass Perigee Apogee Inclination 51.66 Period 88.66 minutes References

The approach was completed automatically, while the final 180 metres were achieved manually on 6 June.

Twenty seven material processing and medical experiments were carried out by the visiting crew.

The flight itself was a test of the new engine and its success meant the crew had a reliable return craft.

The main option was to fire the back up engine, but this option was not guaranteed to work, even if the engine fired.

Despite all this, their condition was slightly better than the previous long duration crew's.

Mission parameters Mass Perigee Apogee Inclination 51.65 Period 89.52 minutes References

Mission notes Both cosmonauts and astronaut Andy Thomas (arrived on STS 89) became the 25th resident crew.

The standard recovery procedure was changed with this flight, observers noted.

The tail was never fitted with a drag chute it was fitted to the remaining orbiters in 1992.

One monument is a 10 meter tall silver rectangle with a small stone marker nearby listing the date of the landing.

In the days following the world's startled response, the Soviets started celebrating their great accomplishment.

Later reports indicate that the mission may have ended owing to a deterioration in the health of Zholobov.

A minor helium leak did not affect their mission.

The white metal EVA backpack provided 45 minutes of oxygen for breathing and cooling.

The Soviets called this the first launch of a communications satellite from a manned space vehicle.

Despite subzero temperatures, Beregovoy's landing was so easy he said later that he hardly felt the impact at all.

To prevent the suit ballooning, the Yastreb suit featured a pulley and cable articulation system.

The resulting film, First Orbit , was released online to celebrate the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight.

He remained in the space programme until failing a physical in 1981.

Lebedev retired from the space program in 1993.

This was one of the first admissions by the Soviet Union that it had ever engaged in a manned lunar spaceflight program.

Boeing participated also with other products in the space program, and was the first contractor for the International Space Station program.

Soyuz TM 5 the fifth cosmonaut carrying spacecraft to visit the Russian Space Station Mir.