Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1935)

Gherman Titov

Soviet cosmonaut (1935–2000)

Gherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space, counting suborbital voyages of US astronauts Alan Shepard and…