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01 April 1965 Nation: USSR. Program: Vostok. Spacecraft: Vostok 3KA. Payload: Vostok 3KA s/n 12. Perigee: 200 km. Apogee: 1,000 km. Inclination: 65.0 deg. References: 283 , 294 . <!--Start here>
In the flight series originally planned in January-March 1963 this would have been flown by the end of 1963 and would have been an unmanned thirty day biosat flight. In the late 1963 - early 1964 series it was changed to a high altitude manned Vostok flight for extended scientific studies. Spacecraft would have been allowed to naturally decay to a re-entry after ten days. Purposes of these flights were to be: geophysical and astronomical research; photography of the solar corona; solar x-ray imagery; medical-biological research; detailed study of the effects of weightlessness on the human organism; dosimetry; and engineering tests of ion flow sensors to be used for orientation of later Soyuz spacecraft. All follow-on Vostok missions cancelled in Spring 1964.
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