Propagandaworld Archive

(1.5.20)
Price: 1.50 euro

Original First Day Cover from the Soviet Union made in 1962.
The stamp in the upper right corner reads:”First anniversary of satellite spacecraft flight”.
Vostok 2 (Russian: Boctok 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.