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OCR: Sputnik 4 May 15, 1960 Unmanned prototype decayed Sept. 5, 1962; recovery on May 19, 1960, failed as cabin went into higher Sputnik 5 Aug. 19, 1960 orbit; cabin decayed on Oct. 15, 1965 Reentered Aug. 20, 1960; cabin with dogs Belka and Strelka recovered after 18 orbits Sputnik 6 Dec. 1, 1960 Decayed Dec. 2, 1960; recovery attempt failed, result- ing in loss of cabin with dogs Pshchelka and Mushka Sputnik 9 Mar. 9, 1961 Cabin with dog Chernushka recovered after one orbit Sputnik 10 Mar. 25, 1961 Cabin with dog Zverdochka recovered after one orbit Vostok 1 Apr. 12, 1961 First manned spaceflight; cosmonaut Yury Gagarin Vostok 2 Aug. 6, 1961 recovered after one orbit ( 1 hr 48 min) Cosmonaut Gherman Titov recovered after 17 orbits (25 hr 18 min) Vostok 3 Aug. 11, 1962 Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev recovered after 64 orbits (94 hr 25 min) Vostok 4 Aug. 12, 1962 Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich recovered after 48 orbits (70 hr 59 min); Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 formed the first group spaceflight and came within 6.5 km Vostok 5 (4.0 mi) of each other during first orbit of Vostok 4 June 14, 1963 Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky recovered after 81 orbits (119 hr 6 min) Vostok 6 June 16, 1963 Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (first woman in space) recovered after 48 orbits ( 70 hr 50 min); Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 came within 5.0 km (3.1 mi) of each other during first orbit of Vostok 6