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Vostok 2 (Russian: Восток-2 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. Titov orbited the Earth over 17 times exceeding the single orbit of Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 − as well as the suborbital spaceflights of American astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom aboard their respective Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4 missions.

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