Gherman Titov Quotes


Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.


Citations

Titov, Gherman. Vostok 2 Radio Transmission, 6 Aug. 1961. Quoted in Burgess, Colin, and Rex Hall, The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact, Springer Praxis, 2009.

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Gherman Titov
Gherman Titov
  • Born: September 11, 1935
  • Died: September 20, 2000
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Pilot

Gherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet 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 Gus Grissom. A month short of 26 years old at launch, he remains the youngest person to fly in space.