Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 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-up1333arrow-down14
arrow-up1329arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·3 months agoWhile I get that it’s not a small feat, and an unusual finale for space flight, this isn’t much higher than some skydiving packages you can book today. Still pretty ballsy for back then.
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months ago an unusual finale for space flight I mean at the time, it was the typical finale for a manned space flight
While I get that it’s not a small feat, and an unusual finale for space flight, this isn’t much higher than some skydiving packages you can book today. Still pretty ballsy for back then.
I mean at the time, it was the typical finale for a manned space flight