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Gherman Titov

Soviet cosmonaut who became the second human to orbit Earth in 1961.

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Known for: Second human to orbit Earth aboard Vostok 2 and youngest person to fly in Earth orbit
Listed under: Space Exploration Pioneers

About Gherman Titov

He was the fourth person in space, counting suborbital voyages of US astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. Titov's flight proved that humans could live and work in space. He was the first person to orbit the Earth multiple times (a total of 17 orbits) and to spend more than a day in space. He was also the first to sleep in orbit and to suffer from space sickness (becoming the first person to vomit in space). Titov captured the first photos of Earth from space taken by a human. He also was the first spacefarer to film the Earth, using a professional Konvas-Avtomat movie camera for ten minutes. Under the Spiral program, he trained to become the first pilot of an orbital spaceplane. Titov served in the Soviet Air Force, attaining the rank of colonel-general. Retiring in 1992, he became a politician of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and was elected to the State Duma in 1995. Despite having been chosen second, after Gagarin, to fly into space, it was Titov who later proposed the Soviet Government regularly celebrate Cosmonautics Day on April 12, the day of Gagarin's flight.

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