What if you could wave at your friend... from ANOTHER SPACESHIP zooming through outer space?

The Day Soyuz Became the First Spacecraft to Orbit!

How a Russian capsule made history zooming around Earth for a whole day

Two Soviet cosmonauts became the first humans to fly in space at the same time!

On June 24, 1962, something super cool happened in space! A Soviet spacecraft called Vostok 3 was zooming around Earth with cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev inside. But wait — there's more!

Just one day later, another spacecraft called Vostok 4 blasted off with cosmonaut Pavel Popovich aboard. For the first time EVER, two crewed spaceships were flying in space at the same time! Can you imagine looking out your window and seeing another astronaut waving at you from a different spaceship?

The two capsules came within about 5 kilometers of each other — that's closer than some people's drive to school! The cosmonauts could actually talk to each other by radio while floating in space. How awesome is that?

Andriyan stayed up in space for almost FOUR days, orbiting Earth 64 times! That was a world record back then. He traveled about 2.6 million kilometers — that's like driving around Earth 65 times!

💡 Andriyan Nikolayev was nicknamed the 'Iron Man' because his heartbeat barely changed during the stressful rocket launch — he stayed super calm!