Cosmonaut Gherman Titov and Hero of Socialist Labour Nikolai Mamai from the Donbass at the Twenty-Second Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961

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Gherman Titov Pioneering cosmonaut Gherman Titov was the first man to spend so long orbiting the Earth that he fell asleep - and for the next four decades his…

"He was widely expected to be the first to go into space, but learned that Gagarin got the nod only three days before the blast-off."

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The second man to orbit the Earth, Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, was born 11 September 1935.

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On 6th August 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov made history as the second person to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, following Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight on Vostok.

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