Rocket built to launch Vostok 1, the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human spaceflight in history. The Vostok space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard.

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