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Vostok (Russian Восток 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.On March 18 1980 a Vostok-2M rocket exploded on its launch pad at Plesetsk during a fueling operation killing 48 people.

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comparable
Titan (rocket family), Atlas (rocket family)
failed launches
1, 2
final flight
1991-08-29
launch site
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31, Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43
maiden flight
1960-05-15
manufacturer
S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
number of rocket stages
2
successful launches
2, 3, 11
total launches
2, 4, 13

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