vostok 2

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Mission Name:	Vostok 2
Call Sign:	Орёл (Oryol - "Eagle")
Number of Crew Members:	1
Launch:	August 6, 1961 05:00 UTC Baikonur LC1
Landing:	August 7, 1961 07:18 UTC 51 N, 46 E, near Krasny Kut
Duration:	1 day, 1 hour, 18 minutes
Number of Orbits:	17.5

Vostok 2 was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day in order to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body. Unlike Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 Titov took manual control of the spacecraft for a short while. The flight was an almost complete success, marred only by a bout of space sickness, a malfunctioning heater that allowed the inside temperature to drop to 6.1C (43F), and a troublesome re-entry when the re-entry module failed to separate cleanly from its service module. The re-entry capsule was unfortunately destroyed during development of the Voskhod spacecraft. As of 2003, Titov remains the youngest person to reach space. He was a month short of 26 years old at launch.

Crew

Gherman Titov

Backup

Andrian G. Nikolayev

Mission Parameters

Mass: 4730 kg
Perigee: 172 km
Apogee: 221 km
Inclination: 64.8
Period: 88.4 minutes

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