Vostok 2

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Vostok 2 (Russian: Восток-2, lit. 'Orient 2' or 'East 2') was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961, to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body.

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