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Vostok 2
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| Mission Statistics | |
| 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 6.1°C (43°F), 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
Backup
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 4730 kg
- Perigee: 172 km
- Apogee: 221 km
- Inclination: 64.8°
- Period: 88.4 minutes
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