Gherman Titov
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Who was Gherman Titov?
Soviet cosmonaut who became the second person to orbit Earth in August 1961, just four months after Yuri Gagarin. He was the youngest person to fly in space at age 25.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Gherman Titov (CC BY-SA 4.0).