Gherman Titov

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Gherman Titov

Gherman Stepanovich Titov (September 11, 1935 – September 20, 2000) was a Soviet

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
cosmonaut

Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
and the second human to orbit the Earth.

v was born in the village of Verkhneye Zhilino in the Altai Region

Altai Republic

Altai Republic is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . The direct romanization of Russian of the republic's Russian name is Respublika Altay, and the romanization of the Altay name is Altay Respublika....
and went to school at the Stalingrad Military Aviation School. After graduating as an air force pilot, he was selected for cosmonaut training in 1960, and from there was chosen to fly the Vostok 2

Vostok 2

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Gherman Stepanovich Titov (September 11, 1935 – September 20, 2000) was a Soviet

Soviet Union

Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
and the second human to orbit the Earth.

Biography

Titov was born in the village of Verkhneye Zhilino in the Altai Region

Altai Republic

Vostok 2

Vostok 2 was a Soviet Union space mission which carried astronaut 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....
mission launched in August 6, 1961. The mission lasted for 25.3 hours and accomplished 17 earth orbits. His call sign in this flight was Eagle . He landed close to the town of Krasny Kut in Saratov Oblast

Saratov Oblast

Saratov Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Saratov....
, Russia. A month short of 26 years old at launch, he remains the youngest person to fly in space.

In August 1961, he was the first person to suffer from "space sickness" (i.e. motion sickness in space) and was also the first human to sleep in space. He slept roughly for one orbit, and was surprised to awake with his arms floating in the air due to the absence of gravity. After securing his arms under a security belt, he went back to sleep, overslept and awoke 30 minutes later than predicted by the flight plan. He states (vide English version of his biography) that "Once you have your arms and legs arranged properly, space sleep is fine ... I slept like a baby".

Following his space flight, Titov went on to assume various senior positions in the Soviet space programme until his retirement in 1992. In 1995 he was elected to the State Duma

State Duma

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as a member of the Communist Party

Communist Party of Russia

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. He died of cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest

A cardiac arrest, also known as cardiopulmonary arrest or circulatory arrest, is the abrupt cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively during Systole ....
in his sauna at the age of 65 in Moscow

Moscow

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. He was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery

Novodevichy Cemetery

Novodevichy Cemetery is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the World Heritage Site, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site....
.

Awards and Medals

Gherman Titov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union

Hero of the Soviet Union

The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society....
, two Orders of Lenin

Order of Lenin

The Order of Lenin , named after Vladimir Lenin of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest Order bestowed by the Soviet Union. The order was awarded...
, numerous medals and foreign orders. He was also bestowed a title of the Hero of Socialist Labor of Bulgaria, Hero of Labor of Vietnam, and Hero of Mongolia. A crater

Titov (crater)

Titov is a relatively small Moon impact crater on the Far side of the Moon. The most unusual aspect of this crater is that it is located entirely within the Mare Moscoviense, one of the few lunar mare found on the far side of the Moon....
on the far side of the Moon is named after Titov.

Fictional references

In Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, Order of the British Empire was a British people science fiction author, inventor, and Futurology, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the 2001: A Space Odyssey ; and as a host and comment...
's 2010: Odyssey Two
2010: Odyssey Two

2010: Odyssey Two is a best-selling science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, which was released in January 1982. It is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983....
(and the film adaptation 2010), the opening dialogue/scene features a conversation between Dimitri Moisevitch of the Soviet Space Council and Dr. Heywood Floyd. When Moisevitch informs Floyd that the Soviets will be traveling to Jupiter

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the Solar system by size planet within the Solar System. It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our Solar System combined....
on their new spaceship named for Alexey Leonov, Floyd is initially puzzled, claiming that he thought the ship was to be named for Gherman Titov. In the book, Moisevitch just mentioned that it had been changed to Leonov; in the film, he replies that Titov has fallen out of favor, though he does not elaborate.

Books

G. Titov, M. Calden, I am an Eagle. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1962.