Vostok


This is the parachute compartment of a Vostok-type return capsule. This capsule carried a payload of live animals into space during 1983. Derivatives of the original manned spacecraft continue to be used as orbital laboratories and photo platforms, among other uses.

Location: USAF Museum
Date: July 1993 (?)
Photo by: Karl D. Dodenhoff


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