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-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.
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.