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-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·edit-23 months agoI don’t get it. Is 6km up Space? Also wdym “by himself”. Did you expect him to parachute with someone else?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·3 months agoNo. Just high enough that he could parachute down safely without the craft because they didn’t know how to get both down safely.
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·3 months agoSo it wasn’t a space flight?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·3 months agoNo. It was a space flight. He, inside the Vostok 1, went into space. He orbited the Earth once. He re-entered the atmosphere. When he was only 6 km from the ground, he jumped out of the Vostok 1 and parachuted to the ground.
I don’t get it. Is 6km up Space?
Also wdym “by himself”. Did you expect him to parachute with someone else?
No. Just high enough that he could parachute down safely without the craft because they didn’t know how to get both down safely.
So it wasn’t a space flight?
No. It was a space flight. He, inside the Vostok 1, went into space. He orbited the Earth once. He re-entered the atmosphere. When he was only 6 km from the ground, he jumped out of the Vostok 1 and parachuted to the ground.