vostok

Like the American craft, Vostok was equipped with braking rockets and parachutes for the return to earth.

But Vostok and the other subglacial lakes were thought to be natural museums, isolated from the rest of the world millions of years ago.

Although it hovers near the freezing point, cut off from light and outside nutrients, Lake Vostok is teeming with microorganisms.

In April nineteen sixty-one, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched in the vehicle known as Vostok.

I for one look forward to enjoying a "Vostok" atop Mars' Olympus Mons (but I promise to recycle the empties).

Are they prospecting early, for instance, by exploring Lake Vostok?

The Russian Armed Forces started early last week large-scale Vostok-2010 military exercises in Siberia and the country's Far East.

Presently, I am smitten with Vostok, a Catalonian studio that employs unimaginable printing techniques.

This microorganism was discovered under 4 km of ice, just above Lake Vostok, Russia.

As a full-grown man, Gagarin was 5 feet 2 inches ( approx. 157. 5 Cm ) tall, which was an advantage in the small Vostok cockpit .

Lake Vostok is a massive body of liquid water buried under the ice for 400, 000 years.

Just 18 days later, the 3KA-3 manned capsule, later renamed Vostok 1, carried Gagarin on the world's first space flight.

Antarctica has deep fresh water lakes beneath the ice, with Lake Vostok the largest, as large as Lake Ontario.

flights of unmanned and manned spacecraft of the Vostok type were made;

The coldest temperature ever on Earth minus 128. 5 degrees F (minus 89. 2 degrees C), July 21, 1983, Vostok, Antarctica