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Vostok
Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as "East") may refer to:
Spaceflight
- The Soviet Vostok programme of human spaceflight
- The spacecraft used in that programme and also the basis of a reconnaissance satellite
- The rocket, used to launch the Vostok spacecraft
Also
- The corvette Vostok with which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen explored Antarctica in 1820
- A Soviet Antarctic base
- Lake_Vostok beneath Vostok base, which also seems destined to play a part in the space exploration, given theories that it provides conditions similiar to those on icy Jovian moons, primarily on Europa.
- Dalny Vostok -- the Russian language phrase which names the Russian Far East.
- Vostok Island in the Pacific Ocean
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