| 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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