It was the second human spaceflight. Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 70 km southeast of Engels (5 - 10 km north of Krasny Kut).

Unlike to Gagarin with Vostok 1 Titov took over with manual control of the spacecraft, but only for a while. Looking through the porthole of the capsule, he made a video movie 10 minutes long. Titov was able to sleep a few hours during the spaceflight, although he went through some inconveniencies such as an unknown space sickness and problems with a malfunctioning heater.

The reentry module failed to separate smoothly from its service module, but after several connecting pieces burned down during reentry, the capsule recovered a stable attitude. As planned, Titov left the capsule with a catapult seat.

Even today is Titov the ever youngest human in space during his spaceflight.