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First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster
wired_parrot writes Nearly fifty years after the first spacewalk by soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, he's given a rare interview to the BBC revealing how the mission very nearly ended in disaster. Minutes after he stepped into space, Leonov realised his suit had inflated like a balloon, preventing him from getting back inside. Later on, the cosmonauts narrowly avoided being obliterated in a huge fireball when oxygen levels soared inside the craft. And on the way back to Earth, the crew was exposed to enormous G-forces, landing hundreds of kilometres off target in a remote corner of Siberia populated by wolves and bears.
The interview is neat, but this isn't anything being "revealed"- all these details were already known. You'll see them mentioned in many books discussing early space flight. They are I think mentioned for example in Buzz Aldrin's "Men from Earth".
The Russians had the genius Korolev all we Americans had was an old Nazi who no one even listened to until the Russians were already way ahead of us.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Yes they did, but they didn't abandon their existing, working infrastructure to do so. That is the difference.