Gherman TitovView of Earth from space - first man-made images of Earth from spaceVostok 2, 6 Augt 1961Vintage gelatin silver press print on fibre-based paper, 11.5 x 18 cm (4½ x 11 in), with The Daily Telegraph stamp dated 29 Augt 1969, cropping notes and press caption on verso Footnotes:On the 6th Augt 1961 Titov was launched into space onboard his Vostok 2 spacecraft with a primary objective of investigating the effects of prolonged weightlessness on human organism and his ability to work in orbit. The spacecraft was equipped with life-support system, radio and television for monitoring the condition of the cosmonaut, tape recorder, telemetry system, biological experiments, and automatic and manual control equipment. Titov orbited Earth 17 times, th surpassing the length of time any human had spent in orbit so far. During the mission Titov took images of the planet with a professional Konvas motion picture camera with which he recorded ten minutes of film of the Earth through the porthole of his spacecraft