On August 6-7, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut German Stepanovich Titov made the world's first daily space flight on the Vostok-2 spacecraft, becoming the second cosmonaut in history. The space expedition of German Titov, as well as the flight of Yuri Gagarin, became part of the glorious history of Russian cosmonautics. The flight duration was 25 hours and 18 minutes. The spacecraft made 17 revolutions around the Earth, flying more than 700 thousand kilometers.
During the flight, the image of G. S. Titov was transmitted to Earth via radio telemetry channels. Doctors constantly monitored the state of his health, conducted an analysis of physiological data. Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the General Designer of the Rocket and Space Industry of the USSR, who controlled the mission from Earth, said about Titov: "The remarkable features of Herman Stepanovich are quick reaction, quickness, coolness and, probably, the most valuable thing is observation, the ability to seriously analyze. Despite the importance of all the others, the last two qualities in this flight are of particular importance."
Soviet cosmonaut German Titov took the first photographs of the Earth, had lunch and dinner in zero gravity for the first time and, most importantly, managed to sleep in space, which became one of the most important experiments in the era of the beginning of the development of manned cosmonautics. For the first time, it was proved that in the conditions of weightlessness, a person remains able to work during the day, and, therefore, it is possible to live and work in space.
The postage stamp has an overprint of the new denomination, and the inscription on the stamp sheet is "60 years of the first long-term human flight into space".
| Paper |
Printing method |
Perforation |
Format of the stamp |
Edition |
| Chalk surfaced |
Offset + screen printing (overprint of the new face value on the stamp and the text in the margins) |
Comb 12¼:12 |
42 × 30 mm |
42 thousand stamps |