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Only about, let's see, only about 108 minutes. Okay, this story, however, isn't about Yuri Gagarin. It's at Bora Vostak 1. Tonight's moment in the history of space and astronomy will take us back 65 years ago this week. To re-discover the second man in space. Ignoring suborbital missions. Okay, that is, otherwise that would be the fourth person in space if you counted those. German T-Tough was someone most of you probably never heard of, and maybe if you have, it's just a familiar, vaguely familiar name. But in 1961, August 6th, the Soviet Union launched him on Vostak 2. Inside was the 25-year-old T-Tough flying under the ground. In the Oreo, that's Russian for Eagle, his assignment represented an enormous leap, that one orbit, but more than 70.