Pilot-cosmonaut German Stepanovich Titov (1935-2000) accomplished the first lasting cosmic flight on 1961 Aug. 6-7. The orbital spaceship “Vostok-2” with Titov on board circled the earth 17 times. He was the backup pilot to Yurij Gagarin. He wrote a number of books on cosmology.
Discovered on 29-8-1986 in Nauchnyj by Zhuravleva, L. V.