But that was as it was designed, right? I see no problem with that.
Yes, as it was designed. It’s not a problem, it’s incredible. Think of the bravery it took!
Gagarin is one of those super human people that makes me feel grossly inadequate. Look at him. Qualified technically, insane enough to get strapped into a ballistic missile and then eject out of it during re-entry, and handsome too. Cosmonauts and Astronauts are so many sigmas from normal that it’s hard to believe they’re the same species as the rest of us.
Not only that he also had a pistol with him.
Did he? I know a special pistol was part of Soyuz missions. They didn’t want bears attacking cosmonauts when they landed in Siberia.
This seems like the most Soviet thing ever.
We don’t have a good reëntry vehicle, so let’s have them eject. We KNOW personal parachutes work. So yeah that cool right Yuri?
The first space shuttle had ejection seats.
In later flights, the ejection seats were removed because there was only a narrow window in which the seats could save the occupant, and even then, there was a fair chance the ejection would kill the occupant.
After that SOP was to chuck her into a steep dive, pop the door off, and just jump.
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?
