Who was the SECOND man to orbit the Earth?

Answer 1

Alan Sheperd

AnswerAlan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. from the USA, on May 5th, 1961.

Answer 2

Gherman Titov was the second man in space. He traveled on Vostok 2 on Aug 6-7, 1961. He died in September, 2000 as a Colonel-General of the Russian Air Force at age 65.

Answer 3

Mercury-3 -- Freedom 7 launched on May 5, 1961, carrying Alan Shepard was the second manned space flight -- it was a sub-orbital flight that lasted fifteen minutes.

Answer 4

Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., Neil Armstrong's partner on Apollo 11, was the second

person on the moon. He stepped onto the surface 21 minutes after Armstrong's

first steps.

Answer 5

The second man to orbit the Earth was Gherman Titov, a Russian cosmonaut. He orbited the Earth on August 6, 1961 aboard Vostok 2 spacecraft.

Answer 6

Alan Shepherd

Answer 7

Gherman Titov 6 August 1961

Answer 8

The American astronaut, Alan Shepard.