Editing Vostok programme (section)

===Korabl-Sputnik 1===
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The first ''Vostok'' spacecraft was a variant not designed to be recovered from orbit; the variant was also called ''Vostok 1KP'' (or ''1P'').<ref name=p251>Siddiqi, p.251</ref> At Korolev's suggestion, the media would call the spacecraft ''Korabl-Sputnik'', ("Satellite-ship"); the name ''Vostok'' was still a secret codename at this point.<ref name=p251/> This first Vostok spacecraft was successfully sent into orbit on May 15, 1960.<ref name=p251/> Owing to a system malfunction, on the spacecraft's 64th orbit the thrusters fired and sent it into an even higher orbit. The orbit eventually decayed, and it [[atmospheric entry|re-entered the atmosphere]] several years later.<ref>According to Hall and Shayler, p.122, the Descent module re-entered on September 5, 1962, and the Equipment module re-entered on October 15, 1965.</ref><ref name=p252>Siddiqi, p.252</ref>