TIL Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth during his historic first manned spaceflight by ejecting 6 km from the ground and parachuting down by himself.
TIL Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth during his historic first manned spaceflight by ejecting 6 km from the ground and parachuting down by himself.
Every year as the anniversary of the first human spaceflight approaches, I receive calls inquiring about the validity of Yuri Gagarin’s claim as the first human in space. The legitimate questions focus on the fact that Gagarin did not land inside his spacecraft.
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amazing the parachute was able to deliver him safely on account of the size of his balls
You guys making fun but I say the Mercury capsule really had a vaguely similar shock absorber.
Think of how much rocket fuel they needed to lift those balls into space in the first place.
You think the Saturn V was big?
Must have been a big harness 😂