First man on space

ITT: Science illiterate shit posters who know little science and no space exploration history.

Stick to your Hitler poop debates and other general bait threads. When you attempt to talk about human space flight the absolute idiocy of our average poster really shines.

No you fuck off back to starving you filthy gommie.

bait is bait

>walked
I don't think so Ivan Ivanovitch Ivanov!

only reason the soviets managed to get so far ahead early on was the absolute lack of safety protocols. An impressive feat no doubt, but the USA has done equally if not more impressive things, with actual safety protocols in mind.

>safety protocols
>one American capsule burned on launch and killed all onboard

is this safety thing a meme/propaganda or is it genuine? can you provide proof/insight? honestly curious.

Gagarin didn't space walk, Leonov did in 1965.

Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969.

Gagarin did an orbital flight of about 108 minutes, completing one orbit.

Fun fact, he didn't land in the capsule, he ejected at around 7000 meters altitude.

Here's a pic of John Glenn because he'a the fucking man. RIP in piece

Enter the Nedelin catastrophe (1960).

A rocket blew up at Baikonour because Nedelin (the commanding officer of the USSR'S Strategic Rocket Forces) rushed through procedures to succesfully launch the new R-16 ICBM for the anniversary of the Revolution.

Sources vary, but close to 100 people died and another 100 were injured.

It was denied by USSR officials for years.

Information started to really circulate about it during glasnost.

>implying outer space is real

>talking about space programs
>tells me about military ballistic missile failure

nigga you what?

You do understand that rockets and missiles are basically the same thing?

Their stories and development, especially in the USSR are linked.

Baikonour was used for military and non-military launches.

The first rockets to take astronauts and cosmonauts were ICBMs.

t. Columbia
t. Challenger

The most impressive thing wasn't that they just sent a man in space, it was that they did all that before the US and a few years after the most devastating war in the history of man, in which they sustained the biggest losses of everyone. So it's not just "impressive" to be accomplishing every space-related achievement for the first time before the most industrialised and rich superpower in the world did, it's something more. If you think the achievements of the two countries relative to their economic conditions at the time can be brought to equal footing by accounting for the skipping of safety protocols, you're deluded.

And I'm saying all this as someone who would never even consider wanting to live under a marxist-leninist empire.

It worked for the Soviets because they had a command economy where the big wigs up top could siphon money to and from wherever they wanted. Which meant people starved and a lot of that cash was wasted because things were rushed and accident-prone. The Soviets pretty much brute forced it.

The Heavens and The Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter Mcdougall is a pretty good book comparing the way that command economy was essential for both the US and Soviet space programs.

He coined the term technocracy to explain why the USSR beat the US in space.

His definition of technocracy isn't the standard definition where specialists run the show, he defines it as ''the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose.''

T. cletus

youtube.com/watch?v=rBuQ_4RJzpg

There's video record of it.

One would think Yuri would be sitting the whole time, so technically not "walking" in space

100+ people dying in one incident is worse than 14 dying in two.

Will christfags ever recover?

Damn...

Gagarin was the first homosexual in space. Alan Shepard was the first real man in space.

yes.
youtube.com/watch?v=-1uNQDHLG3Q