[b]Vostok[/b] (Russian [i]Восток[/i], translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme. 

This family of rockets launched the first artificial satellite ("[[sputnik]]") and the first manned spacecraft in human history. It was a subset of the R-7 family of rockets.

h4.See also

* [[Yuri Gagarin]]
* [[Mercury (Spacecraft)]]
* [[Mercury-Redstone]]
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