Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 1961.
1Flight
1d 1hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Gherman Stepanovich Titov (Russian: Герман Степанович Титов; 11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space, counting suborbital voyages of US astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Verkh-Zhilino
- Education
- Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy; Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia
- Awards
- Honored badge of merit of the President of Ukraine; Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class; Lenin Prize; Order of the October Revolution; Order of the Red Banner of Labour; and 34 more
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Vostok-K | Vostok 2August 6, 1961
Born 1935-09-11 · died 2000-09-20, aged 65