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The 18 pages that link to Vostok 1, each with the reason it gives.

• Space RaceBroader topic: It gave the Soviet Union the first human-spaceflight milestone.

• Yuri GagarinBroader topic: Gagarin flew this capsule through one orbit before landing in the Saratov region.

• Sergei KorolevBroader topic: Korolev directed the spacecraft and launch system behind the first human spaceflight.

• Low Earth orbitBroader topic: It established low Earth orbit as a destination for crewed missions.

• Soviet space programBroader topic: It delivered the program’s defining crewed milestone and a major propaganda victory.

• Human spaceflightBroader topic: It opened the era of human spaceflight and demonstrated that a person could survive an orbital mission.

• Alan ShepardCompared with: Gagarin reached orbit before Shepard’s suborbital flight, setting the challenge for the United States.

• SpaceflightBroader topic: It demonstrated that a person could survive an orbital mission.

• Vostok StationRelated: The station was named after the Soviet Vostok program, which also named this spacecraft.

• Vostok spacecraftBroader topic: It was the spacecraft’s first crewed mission and the first human orbital flight.

• Konstantin FeoktistovBroader topic: The mission demonstrated the Vostok spacecraft Feoktistov helped develop.

• Mercury-Redstone 3Compared with: It preceded Mercury-Redstone 3 and achieved a full orbit rather than a brief arc.

• Nikolai KamaninBroader topic: It was the selection and training program’s defining early test.

• Orbital spaceflightBroader topic: It demonstrated that a person could survive a complete orbit around Earth.

• Scott CarpenterCompared with: Gagarin’s earlier orbital flight set the international milestone Carpenter’s mission followed.

• History of spaceflightBroader topic: It established that a person could survive an orbital flight.

• Yang LiweiCompared with: It provides an earlier milestone against which China’s first crewed flight is often compared.

• Gherman TitovCompared with: Its single-orbit flight was brief compared with Titov’s 17-orbit mission.