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-squaredrolex@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down6·3 months agoAstronauts now: we need ice cream, stat! These space travels are very uncomfortable. Cosmonauts then: I will jump through the atmosphere with this glorified handkerchief to slow me down (Me in my armchair, also now: all these guys are such losers. I could do all that any day. But not today, maybe later though)
minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoWhat? I thought astronauts already had ice cream. Do you mean to tell me that all those museum gift shops would just lie like that?
Astronauts now: we need ice cream, stat! These space travels are very uncomfortable.
Cosmonauts then: I will jump through the atmosphere with this glorified handkerchief to slow me down
(Me in my armchair, also now: all these guys are such losers. I could do all that any day. But not today, maybe later though)
What? I thought astronauts already had ice cream. Do you mean to tell me that all those museum gift shops would just lie like that?