Vostok 1 Piloted by Yuri Gagarin was launched on April 12th 1961 and was the first manned spaceflight to pass the Karman Line.
I tried to recreate the flight as accuratley as I could in stormworks, but there is still a few inaccuracies mostly relating to the times that events occur at.
OPERATION
(PLAYER DAMAGE NEEDS TO BE OFF)
First start by getting into the elevator and equipping the space suit. then press the UP button to go up to the platform.
When you are on the platform, climb to the 2nd (middle) platform. You can enter the rocket from there. once you are in the capsule, you should configure the switches to your liking once the breaker is on.
After entering the rocket and sitting in the seat, you must hold the key button labeled "seal rocket" (NOT START VOSTOK 1) to seal the rocket. the button is located on the outside of the capsule within reach sitting in the seat.
once the rocket is sealed and the towers have lowered, you may press the key button when ready to START VOSTOK 1. (make sure the breaker is on with the heat and light toggled on)
it will take 10 seconds to ignite the rocket boosters and then another 16.5 seconds to lift off.
In the case of a emergency where aborting is necessary, press space to eject from the capsule.
After T+200-T+220 the side boosters will detatch. The detatch is triggered if one of the boosters runs out of fuel rather than using a time based system. In the real rocket the boosters would detatch at T+119, but stormworks makes this very impractical to do. After T+410 seconds, the 3rd stage will light and detatch. This command is triggered either by the core stage running out of fuel, or the 410 second delay. In the actual rocket, it would be after about T+300 seconds but again, stormworks makes this very impractical.
At T+660 seconds the 3rd stage will burn Retrograde (against the heading of the orbit) to insert the capsule into the correct orbital velocity of about 438 m/s
Refer to the orbit tutorial I have attatched to maintain a stable orbit. At T+2000 seconds the retrograde motor will fire and deorbit the capsule by reducing the orbital velocity enough to fall out of orbit. The capsule seperates at T+2100
RCS manual is a manual control mode where the RCS thrusters are controlled by WSAD and Arrow keys left/right.
in a normal flight this should NOT BE USED as it can effect Vertical speed and orbital speed, which should be kept stable.
Once reentry is competed and you are low enough to eject, or in the case of an emergency press space to eject from the capsule. there is no parachute in the capsule, so this is needed.
Thank you, and happy flying!
