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Lake Vostok
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lake Vostok , c.3,900 sq mi (10,000 sq km), c.155 mi (250 km) long and 30 mi (50 km) at its greatest width, in East Antartica beneath the remote Vostok research station. One of the largest subglacial lakes in Antarctica, the...
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Antarctic ice cores
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...extensive record, however, comes from Vostok in the central part of eastern Antarctica...1 Γ and 2 Γ) at the Vostok site began in 1970 and a reached a maximum...Low accumulation rates at Dome C and Vostok mean that the annual isotopic signal...
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Valentina Tereshkova
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...space, orbiting the earth 48 times in Vostok VI in 1963. Valentina Tereshkova was...from the Tyuratam Space Station in the Vostok VI in 1963, and orbited the Earth for...months before becoming chief pilot of the Vostok VI. Admiring fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin...
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Space Program
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...flight missions. The spacecraft was called Vostok when it was used to carry a human into...The first human was lifted into space in Vostok 1 atop a modified R-7 rocket on April...There were five additional one-person Vostok missions. In August 1961, Gherman Titov...
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Tereshkova, Valentina
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...orbiting the earth forty-eight times in Vostok VI in 1963. She orbited the Earth for...months before becoming chief pilot of the Vostok VI. All candidates underwent a rigorous...floating weightlessly before her face. Vostok VI made forty-eight orbits (1,200...
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Yuri Alexeivich Gagarin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...long hours spent in the mock-up of the Vostok, an exact replica of the spacecraft in...were told that the first flight of the Vostok would be on April 12, 1961. Orbiting...percent named Gagarin. He was launched in Vostok 1 on the planned date, and during the...
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Gagarin, Yuri Alexeyevich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...practiced in a mockup of the spacecraft Vostok. Space officials closely observed the...final selection. Gagarin was launched in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The Vostok spacecraft included a small spherical...
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Antarctica
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...water have been identified underneath the continental ice; the largest known of these is Lake Vostok , which lies 2.5 mi (4 km) beneath the Russian Vostok research station in E Antarctica. Many of the lakes are connected by subglacial rivers...
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Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb von
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...x2013;5. The expedition sailed in July 1819 with Bellingshausen aboard the Mirny and his second in command aboard the Vostok . In December they reached South Georgia and completed the coastal survey begun by Cook. From there the expedition proceeded...
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Amalrik, Andrei Alexeyevich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Kievan Rus. Amalrik wrote several absurdist plays such as Moya tetya zhivet v Volokolamske (My Aunt Lives in Volokolamsk), Vostok-Zapad (East-West), and Nos! Nos? No-s! (The Nose! The Nose? The No-se!), the latter referring to Gogol...
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