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-squareCptEnder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down29·3 months agoKinda sums up the Soviet space program perfectly. NASA spent millions to make a pen that worked in space, the Soviets just brought a pencil.
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·3 months agoThat did not happen. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/
minus-squareAlwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoGraphite dust is a bitch in zero G
Kinda sums up the Soviet space program perfectly. NASA spent millions to make a pen that worked in space, the Soviets just brought a pencil.
That did not happen.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/
Graphite dust is a bitch in zero G