Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Vostok (Russian Восток, translated as \"East\") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme. This family of rockets launched the first artificial satellite (\"sputnik\") and the first manned spacecraft in human history. It was a subset of the R-7 family of rockets.On March 18, 1980 a Vostok-2M rocket exploded on its launch pad at Plesetsk during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. An investigation into a similar – but avoided – accident revealed that the substitution of lead-based for tin-based solder in hydrogen peroxide filters allowed the breakdown of the H2O2, thus causing the resultant explosion."@en }
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- Vostok_(rocket_family) abstract "Vostok (Russian Восток, translated as \"East\") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme. This family of rockets launched the first artificial satellite (\"sputnik\") and the first manned spacecraft in human history. It was a subset of the R-7 family of rockets.On March 18, 1980 a Vostok-2M rocket exploded on its launch pad at Plesetsk during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. An investigation into a similar – but avoided – accident revealed that the substitution of lead-based for tin-based solder in hydrogen peroxide filters allowed the breakdown of the H2O2, thus causing the resultant explosion.".