Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth during his historic first manned spaceflight by ejecting 6 km from the ground and parachuting down by himself.airandspace.si.eduexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down14
arrow-up1331arrow-down1external-linkTIL Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth during his historic first manned spaceflight by ejecting 6 km from the ground and parachuting down by himself.airandspace.si.eduFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareWiggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up89arrow-down9·2 months agoamazing the parachute was able to deliver him safely on account of the size of his balls
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down4·2 months agoThink of how much rocket fuel they needed to lift those balls into space in the first place. You think the Saturn V was big?
minus-squareQuereller@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYou guys making fun but I say the Mercury capsule really had a vaguely similar shock absorber.
minus-squarebroton33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·2 months agoMust have been a big harness 😂
amazing the parachute was able to deliver him safely on account of the size of his balls
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?
You guys making fun but I say the Mercury capsule really had a vaguely similar shock absorber.
Must have been a big harness 😂