Vostok 2

Mission Statistics
Mission:	Vostok 2
Call sign:	Oryel (Eagle)
Launch:	August 6, 1961 05:00 UTC Baikonur LC1
Landing:	August 7, 1961 07:18 UTC 51° North, 46° East, near Krasny Kut[?]
Duration:	1 day 01:18
Orbits:	17.5

Vostok 2 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[?] 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.

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