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There were also the other words of Yuri Gagarin, on the way back from space: "Я горю, прощайте товарищи" ("I'm on fire. Farewell, comrades"). The capsule someh
by RomanPushkin 4y ago
There were also the other words of Yuri Gagarin, on the way back from space: "Я горю, прощайте товарищи" ("I'm on fire. Farewell, comrades").
The capsule somehow managed to land successfully, and he ended up being alive.
- schoen 4y ago> горю Wow, such wide-ranging cognates! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/g%CA%B7%CA%B0er- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur... ("warm", "thermal", "furnace", and even the "garam" in "garam masala") I'm glad he made it back to Earth safely.
- asciii 4y agoTIL, my new fun fact for Garam Masla -- out of this world spice
- pcthrowaway 4y agoNot sure how you got "out of this world" from "hot"
- aivisol 4y agoHe didn't land in capsule, he parachuted at approx 7km altitude or so.
- asddubs 4y agowow, that must have taken a while
- runlaszlorun 4y agoabout 20 mins. assuming his chute is similar to a military round chute.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoDo you have a source for this? The Wikipedia article says nothing about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1
- dark_star 3y agoFrom the Wikipedia article: At 07:55 UTC, when Vostok 1 was still 7 km (4.3 mi) from the ground, the hatch of the spacecraft was released, and two seconds later Gagarin was ejected. At 2.5 km (8,200 ft) altitude, the main parachute was deployed from the Vostok spacecraft.[43] Gagarin's parachute opened almost immediately, and about ten minutes later, at 08:05 UTC, Gagarin landed. Both he and the spacecraft landed via parachute 26 km (16 mi) south west of Engels, in the Saratov region at 51.270682°N 45.99727°E.
- LeoPanthera 3y agoThe comment I was replying to was the one claiming he said "I'm on fire. Farewell, comrades"