vostok

noun

1. one of a series of Soviet spacecraft, carrying one cosmonaut, used to make the world’s first manned spaceflights.

noun

1. any of six manned Soviet spacecraft made to orbit the earth. Vostok 1, launched in April 1961, carried Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space; Vostok 6 carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space