| Mission Statistics | |
| Mission: | Vostok 3 |
| Call sign: | Sokol (Falcon) |
| Launch: | August 11, 1962 08:30 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | August 15, 1962 06:85 UTC 48°2' North, 75°45' East |
| Duration: | 3 days 22 hours 22 minutes |
| Orbits: | 65 |
Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were launched a day apart, and together these missions were the first time that more than one crewed spacecraft was in orbit at the same time, giving Soviet mission controllers the opportunity of learning how to manage this scenario.
Vostok 3 was crewed by Andrian Nikolayev, who reported sighting the Vostok 4 capsule after it entered orbit near him. The cosmonauts aboard the two capsules also communicated with each other via radio, the first ship-to-ship communications in space.
A final "first" for Vostok 3 was Nikolayev's taking of colour movie footage of the Earth from orbit.
Previous mission - Vostok 2, Next mission - Vostok 4
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