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Vostok-K | Vostok 2
Soviet Space Program1/5 — Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Vostok 2
- Type
- Human Exploration
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
The second crewed space launch carrying the Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov to orbit. The mission lasted 25 hours and 18 minutes and completed 17.5 orbits. He remains the youngest person to reach space, being a month short of 26 at the time of the launch.
schedule
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Vostok-K
- Family
- R-7
- Variant
- K
- Provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Type
- Government
- Country
- RUS
launch site
- Pad
- 1/5
- Location
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Country
- KAZ
- Timezone
- Asia/Qyzylorda
- Coordinates
- 45.9200, 63.3420