Vostok 5 capsule. Capsule from the Soviet Vostok 5 spacecraft on display at the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russi

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Vostok 5 capsule. Capsule from the Soviet Vostok 5 spacecraft on display at the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia. The Vostok 5 mission orbited the Earth 82 times from 14-19th June 1963 with Valery Bykovsky onboard. This remains the record for the longest solo space flight.

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