| Project: Get Out and Walk |
Cosmonauts |
Assisted Aircrew Escape Systems for "Space Pilots"
| coming soon - details of each "Cosmonaut" Ejectee | |||
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Returning to Earth after their orbital missions the Russian landings were over land and the sudden impact with the ground was thought to be too risky so the first six Soviet Cosmonauts ejected from their space capsule and descended by parachute. The American Astronauts splashed down into the ocean and remained inside their capsules. |
| Yuri Gagarin | Gherman Titov | Andrian Nikolayev | |
| Vostok 1 | Vostok 2 | Vostok 3 | |
| 12th April 1961, flight time 48 minutes | 6th August 1961, flight time 1 day, 1 hour and 18 minutes | 11th August 1962, flight time 3 days 22 hours and 22 minutes | |
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| Pavel Popovich | Valery Bykovsky | Valentina Tereshkova | |
| Vostok 4 | Vostok 5 | Vostok 6 | |
| 12th August 1962, flight time 2 days, 22 hours and 57 minutes | 14th June 1963, flight time 4 days, 23 hours and 6 minutes | 16th June 1963, flight time 2 days 22 hours and 50 minutes | |