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The team had "finally managed to pierce" the ice sheet into Vostok, the source said.

Russians began using titanium in Vostok, the space capsule Yuri Gagarin flew in 1961.

What makes Vostok the prize is that it is both the largest of Antarctica's lakes and astonishingly ancient.

If it is an open body of water, it may resemble Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica, she said.

That was at the very end of the Antarctic field season, and weather at Vostok, the site of the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth (minus 128.6 Fahrenheit), forced a quick departure.

Some believe Vostok, the largest of hundreds of lakes beneath the ice, has been sealed off from the outside world for 15-20 million years or more, and speculate that it may reveal unknown species of microbes and other life forms living in extreme conditions of cold, dark and high pressure.

For her most complex loan, Smith travelled to Russia to collect the Vostok 6, the rocket flown by the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova.

Pavel Romanovich Popovich, born in 1929 in the Kiev region of what is now Ukraine, was part of a pioneering team trained to pilot the Vostok craft, the first manned vehicles the Soviets sent into space.

The first piloted spacecraft, the Vostok and the Voskhod, were almost entirely automatic with back-up manual control systems.

The first generation of IDS, designed for the Vostok and the Voskhod spacecraft, worked with analog equipment, while later generations became increasingly integrated with onboard computer systems.

The final two missions in the Vostok series included the participation of the first woman cosmonaut.