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Mercury is an incredible spacecraft. Incredibly small and light - less than 1400 kilogram, comparing to more than 4000 kilogram of Vostok. As an astronaut (Gris
by avmich 11y ago
Mercury is an incredible spacecraft. Incredibly small and light - less than 1400 kilogram, comparing to more than 4000 kilogram of Vostok. As an astronaut (Grissom?) put it, "you don't enter Mercury - you carefully put the spacecraft on you like gloves".
- sandworm101 11y agoI sat in a mock-up once. Glove was not my impression. For me it was more 'spam in a can'. I would much prefer Vostok's ejection seat to landing a tiny mercury in a vast ocean.