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The world's first manned spaceship, the Vostok (East), is put on public display for first time in Moscow today. Vostok capsules like this one are carried Yuri Gagarin and 5 together Soviet cosmonauts in orbit, one at a time. Voskhod (Sunrise) capsules that have orbited more than one person have not been shown publicly.

0779548 - The world's first manned spaceship, the Vostok (East), is put on public display for first time in Moscow today. Vostok capsules like this one are carried Yuri Gagarin and 5 together Soviet cosmonauts in orbit, one at a time. Voskhod (Sunrise) capsules that have orbited more than one person have not been shown publicly.

©2003 Credit:Topham / AP

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