Launch from Baikonur; landing 75 km west of
Karaganda.
First night launch in the aera of human spaceflights;
photographical and visual Earth observation, several astrophysical,
physiological experiments and technical studies. One solar panel was not
working well after a few days, but that was not a big problem. The capsule was
set into a slow sun-oriented rotation. Valentina
Tereshkova and her daughter communicate via radio and
television with husband and father
Nikolayev. On Flight day 10 the crew was off-duty. On this
day they played chess via radio with cosmonaut
Gorbatko on Earth. Since flight day 12, the crew became more
and more problems to do concentrate work, they became tired and made some small
mistakes.
The landing was without any problems, but both cosmonauts
had big problems, to stand and to walk after landing. They had to be dragged
along by the arms and they looked very ill. There was no knowledge about the
effects of zero-G for humans and so there were no plans and equipment (for
example chairs) for the ill crew, which was brought then to hospital. But all
in all a new spaceflight duration record was performed. But it was the final
record perfomed by a solo flying spaceship. Following records were set by
spaceships, which travelled to orbital stations.