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USSR Latvian Pioneer Camp named after Gherman Titov_ Soviet Space Exloration Pin

$ 6.33

Availability: 91 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation
  • Condition: Good condition. Photos of the actual item

    Description

    USSR Latvian Pioneer Camp named after Gherman Titov_ Soviet Space Exloration _Pin Badge
    Original badge in good condition.
    Obviously intended for presentation/ official use since there is no price indication on the reverse which was obligatory in the USSR for pins in open circulation.
    The inscription
    is in Latvian
    .
    Gherman Titov
    (1935 – 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 2 spacecraft, preceded by Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space if we include suborbital voyages of US astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. A month short of 26 years old at launch, he was the youngest person to fly in space until 2021 when Oliver Daemen flew on Blue Origin NS-16 at the age of 18. Since Daemen flew a suborbital mission, Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit.
    Titov's flight finally proved that humans could live and work in space. He was the first person to orbit the Earth multiple times (a total of 17), the first to pilot a spaceship and to spend more than a day in space. He was also the first to sleep in orbit and to suffer from space sickness (becoming the first person to vomit in space).
    Titov was the first photographer in space, he made the first manual photographs from orbit. He also was the first  to film the Earth using a Russian-made professional Konvas-Avtomat movie camera, which he used for ten minutes.
    Later, Titov continued to work for the Soviet space program and played a major role in the Spiral project where he trained to become the first pilot of an orbital spaceplane. However, after the death of Yuri Gagarin in a military aircraft accident in 1968, the Soviet government decided it could not afford to lose its second cosmonaut, and so Titov's career as test pilot ended.
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