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Key facts
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Harvard designation
- 1961 Tau 1
- Cospar id
- 1961-019A
- Mission duration
- 1 day, 1 hour, 18 minutes
- Spacecraft
- Vostok-3KA No.4
- Manufacturer
- Experimental Design OKB-1
- Launch mass
- 4,731 kilograms (10,430 lb)
- Members
- Gherman Titov
- Callsign
- Орёл ( Oryol - "Eagle")
- Launch date
- August 6, 1961, 06:00 ( 1961-08-06UTC06Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-K 8K72K
- Launch site
- Baikonur 1/5
- Landing date
- August 7, 1961, 07:18 ( 1961-08-07UTC07:19Z ) UTC
- Landing site
- Krasny Kut , 50°51′10″N 47°01′14″E / 50.85276°N 47.02048°E / 50.85276; 47.02048
- Reference system
- Geocentric
- Regime
- Low Earth
- Perigee altitude
- 166 kilometres (103 mi)
- Apogee altitude
- 232 kilometres (144 mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
Vostok 2 (Russian: Восток-2, lit. 'Orient 2' or 'East 2') was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961, to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body. Titov orbited the Earth over 17 times, exceeding the single orbit of Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 – as well as the suborbital spaceflights of American astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom aboard their respective Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4 missions. Titov's number of orbits and flight time would not be surpassed by an American astronaut until Gordon Cooper's Mercury-Atlas 9 spaceflight in May 1963.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vostok 2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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