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    Sa-mi amintesc

    Sa spuna literele in timp ce le atinge


    Sa nu se grabeasca
    Sa scriem de mana cateva cuvinte

    Gherman Titov
    Let’s say you needed a code name to be identified as.What would your code
    name be?
    Gherman Titov , the second man to orbit the earth,was given the code name
    Eagle.

    Gherman Titov, the Russian cosmonaut who has died in Moscow aged 65, was
    the second man to orbit the Earth, and the first to spend an entire day in
    space.

    At six weeks after his 26th birthday, Titov was (and remains) the youngest
    person to venture into space. In order for his craft to land on Soviet soil, it had
    to orbit the Earth either three or 17.5 times, and the latter course was chosen.

    The voyage lasted 25 hrs 18 mins, and during it Titov also became the first man
    to sleep in space. He had some trouble getting to sleep, because when he lay
    down his arms floated up in the air, a problem he solved by strapping them
    under his safety belt. He then overslept by half an hour.
    While in space, Titov (unlike Gagarin) twice switched to manual control of his
    capsule, and carried out other tasks, including filming the Earth and eating
    lunch. This consisted of soup, liver food paste and blackcurrant juice. He spilled
    a few drops of this, and they hung in the air until he scooped them up with the
    lid of the tube.

    From a height of 159 miles, Titov had a splendid view of the planet. Africa
    seemed to him to resemble a yellow leopard, with green spots of jungle. On his
    sixth orbit he was overcome by excitement, and his call sign became a cry of
    exultation. "I am Eagle! I am Eagle!", he told mission control.

    A little later he began to feel dizzy and unwell; prolonged weightlessness


    meant that he had become the first man to get space sickness.

    A further surprise awaited him when he returned home. A little while after he
    had safely parachuted down from the descending capsule, he revealed to
    reporters that he had been ticked off by his wife for not asking her permission
    first to go into space.

    Gherman was named after a character in Pushkin admired by his father, the
    schoolmaster in the village of Polkonikovo where Titov grew up. From an early
    age he showed that he possessed both tenacity and courage. Once he saved
    five other children by finding the way home in a sudden blizzard, and at the
    end of the war almost froze to death by the roadside after refusing to abandon
    a heavy sack of flour which was needed by his starving family.
    Titov was twice awarded the Order of Lenin and was a Hero of the Soviet
    Union. Away from space, he enjoyed hunting, fishing and the theatre. He had
    learned to ski at three and as a young man skated and cycled.

    He was found dead in a sauna in his Moscow flat, having been poisoned by
    carbon monoxide gas.

    Gherman Titov's achievements in space are commemorated by a crater named


    after him on the far side of the Moon. He married, in 1958, Tamara Vasilevna.
    They had two daughters; a son predeceased him.

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