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Titov, German Stepanovich
Titov
Titov
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Russian pilot cosmonaut 1960-1970. Second person in orbit. Youngest person in space. Left cosmonaut team for brilliant career in the space forces after deciding his future spaceflight prospects were nil.

Status: Deceased; Active 1960-1970. Born: 1935-09-11. Died: 2000-09-20. Spaceflights: 1 . Total time in space: 1.05 days. Birth Place: Verhnee Zhilino, Altay.

Call sign: Oryel (Eagle). Second human in orbit.

Titov completed military aviation training in 1957 and served as an Air Force pilot in the Second Leningrad Aviation Region. In 1960 he was selected in the first cosmonaut group and became the second man to orbit the earth in a one day flight in 1961. His boyish good looks and buoyant personality made him a worldwide heart throb after his flight. He liked women, drink, and fast cars, and took full advantage of his celebrity. This resulted in constant trouble with his chain of command over an endless succession of incidents with women and drunk-driving accidents. With the other flown cosmonauts he entered the Zhukovskiy Air Force Engineering Academy in 1962 for formal training as an engineering test pilot. During this period he headed the cosmonaut team training for flight of the Spiral spaceplane. He graduated from Zhukovskiy in 1968 but the chances for future spaceflights seemed slim. He had suffered space sickness on his first flight. This was later found to be common, but in the 1960's it was held against him. Furthermore it was clear that the Spiral was a dead-end program that would never fly. Therefore he consciously selected a management career in the Soviet space forces.

He graduated from the General Staff Military Academy and was appointed Deputy Chief of the Space Command and Control units in August 1972. From June 1973 he was First Deputy Chief of GUKOS for Research, and First Deputy Commander of GUKOS from 1979 to 1991. In these positions he played a key role in the testing and qualification of numerous military space systems. Titov retired from the military in October 1992. Died in Moscow, Russian Federation.


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Family: Cosmonaut. Country: Russia. Spacecraft: Vostok. Flights: Vostok 1, Vostok 2. Agency: VVS. Bibliography: 6114.
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