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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.
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Titov and Earth
* August 6 – Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day.
* Gherman Titov, the second to orbit the Earth.
After a short period of joint work, Romanenko, Alexandrov, and Levchenko returned to Earth handing over the space station to Titov and Manarov.
After three weeks of joint work, Titov and Manarov returned to Earth together, along with the French cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien aboard Soyuz TM-6.
Titov and Manarov returned to Earth after a mission lasting 365 days, 22 hours, 39 minutes, setting a new record, and exceeding one year in space for the first time.
Titov and Manarov were members of the long duration mission Mir EO-3, and returned to Earth just over a full year later, in Soyuz TM-6.
It remained there until December, when it brought Titov and Manarov of the EO-3 crew back to Earth.
Dr. Valeri Polyakov remained behind on Mir with cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov when Mohmand and Lyakhov returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-5.
Titov, Manarov, and Chrétien returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-6.
It is named for cosmonaut Gherman Titov, the second person to orbit the Earth.
Titov and over
Titov exchanged greetings with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as he passed over the Soviet Union at the end of his first orbit, replicating Gagarin's feat.
A camera aboard the spacecraft transmitted smiling pictures of Titov to the ground as he passed over Soviet territory on the fifth orbit.
Titov settled down to sleep during the seventh orbit ; he awoke over eight hours later, 37 minutes after the scheduled end of his sleep period.
Gorbachev resigned as party leader in May 2004 over a disagreement with party chairman Konstantin Titov who had insisted, over Gorbachev's opposition, on a deal with the pro-Kremlin United Russia Party in the previous year's general election.
The JNA demolished Carinski Bridge, Titov Bridge and Lucki Bridge over the river excluding the Stari Most.
Titov and orbit
John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.
John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.
Vostok 2 (, 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.
By November 1961, the Soviets had launched Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov into orbit during the Vostok 1 and Vostok 2 manned orbital flights.
Titov and Yuri
He earned 528 rubles a year, with only cosmonauts 1 and 2 Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov being more highly paid.
Unlike Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1, Titov took manual control of the spacecraft for a short while.
** Men's all-around champion: Yuri Titov, USSR
* Yuri Titov, an Olympic gymnast
Titov and Gagarin
In an April 5 diary entry, Kamanin wrote that he was still undecided between Gagarin and Titov.
When Gagarin and Titov were informed of the decision during a meeting on April 9, Gagarin was very happy, and Titov was disappointed.
At 10 am ( Moscow Time ), Gagarin and Titov were given a final review of the flight plan.
That evening Gagarin and Titov relaxed by listening to music, playing pool, and chatting about their childhoods.
Gagarin's biographers Doran and Bizony say that neither Gagarin nor Titov slept that night.
At 5: 30 am Moscow time, on the morning of April 12, 1961, both Gagarin and his backup Titov were woken.
Out of the twenty selected, the eventual choices for the first launch were Gagarin and Gherman Titov due to their performance during training sessions as well as their physical characteristics — space was limited in the small Vostok cockpit, and both men were rather short.
In April of that year, Komarov toured St. Petersburg, Russia, with Kamanin, Gagarin, Gherman Titov, Belyayev, and Leonov, and Komarov visited Petropavlovsk Fortress with Valentin Glushko where he had conducted the first rocket experiments in the early 1930s.
As with Titov on Vostok 2 — but unlike Gagarin on Vostok 1 — Nikolayev would admit to reporters that he ejected and parachuted to earth separately from his spacecraft.
Titov and on
Around 60 % of Space Shuttle astronauts currently experience it on their first flight ; the first case is now suspected to be Gherman Titov, in August 1961 onboard Vostok 2, who reported dizziness and nausea.
Gherman Titov launched from Gagarin's Start at Baikonur Cosmodrome on 6 August 1961 at 0600 UTC aboard the Vostok 2 spacecraft.
Titov ejected from the capsule as planned and parachuted separately to land at 0718 UTC on 7 August 1961, near Krasny Kut, Saratov Oblast.
A portrait of Titov, wearing a space helmet, is on one side of the stone block, the other side contains red painted text commemorating the mission.
Also this was the second joint U. S .- Russian space walk outside a Space Shuttle, following on the work conducted by Astronaut Scott Parazynski and Cosmonaut Vladimir Titov outside Atlantis while docked to the Mir Space Station during the STS-86 mission in October 1997.
However, the sport's governing body decided to take no action against the Football Union of Russia ( Российский Футбольный Союз ) other than instructing them not to play Titov again, and the Russian team went on to beat Wales in Cardiff 1 – 0 to qualify for UEFA Euro 2004.
A veteran of five missions, Titov served as commander on Soyuz T-8 and Soyuz T-10-1 in 1983 and Soyuz TM-4 in 1987, and flew on the crew of STS-63 in 1995 and STS-86 in 1997.
Titov made his first space flight on April 20, 1983, as commander of Soyuz T-8.
Titov and Strekalov were then scheduled for launch on board what should have been Soyuz T-10 on September 27, 1983.
At the end of the Soyuz TM-6 visit, one of its crew, Dr. Valeri Polyakov, remained on board with Titov and Manarov.
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