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Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
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Vostok 3 and 4
1962 Soviet manned spaceflights into low Earth orbit
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Baikonur Cosmodrome
Spaceport in Kazakhstan leased to Russia
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Andriyan Nikolayev
Soviet cosmonaut (1929–2004)
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and because of it considered the first Turkic cosmonaut.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Weightlessness
Zero apparent weight, microgravity
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