Vostok 2Spacecraft:3KA-3 Launch Vehicle: Vostok 8K72 Launched: 6 Aug 1961 |
Prime Crew |
Description: 2nd 3KA Vostok manned orbital |
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G S Titov 
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Backup Crew |
A G Nikolayev
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| Duration: 1.00 days
Decay Date: 1961-08-07 USAF Sat Cat: 168 COSPAR: 1961-Tau-1 Apogee: 221 km (137 mi) Perigee: 172 km (106 mi) Inclination: 64.8000 deg Period: 88.40 min The spacecraft carried life-support equipment, radio and television for monitoring the condition of the cosmonaut, tape recorder, telemetry system, biological experiments, and automatic and manual control equipment. Flight objectives: Investigation of the effects on the human organism of a prolonged flight in orbit and subsequent return to the surface of the Earth; investigation of man's ability to work during a prolonged period of weightlessness. Titov took manual control of spacecraft but suffered from space sickness. He was equipped with a professional quality Konvas movie camera, with which ten minutes of film of the earth were taken through the porthole. Both television and film images were taken of the interior of the spacecraft. Like Gagarin, Titov experienced problems with separation of the service module after retrofire. The pilot ejected after re-entry and descended under his own parachute, as was planned. However for many years the Soviet Union denied this, because the flight would not have been recognized for various FAI world records unless the pilot had accompanied his craft to a landing. The mission insignia shown above is post factum. References:
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