Quereller@lemmy.onetoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth during his historic first manned spaceflight by ejecting 6 km from the ground and parachuting down by himself.English
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1 month agoYou guys making fun but I say the Mercury capsule really had a vaguely similar shock absorber.
Yeah they developed it because they feared the Makarov used before was not beefy enough.