Spoiler: Boeing Starliner launch was canceled the day after.

  • Droplet [comrade/them]
    hexagon
    hexbear
    63
    1 month ago

    Yes, they deleted it. The Russian Embassy in South Africa twitter account replied and the link it pointed to is now unavailable.

    • dannoffs [he/him]
      hexbear
      52
      1 month ago

      I learned from the replies there that some weirdos don't think his flight counts because he ejected before landing and one of those "international" organizations that are always fucking French said you have to land for it to count.

      • RedDawn [he/him]
        hexbear
        34
        1 month ago

        I’m quite sure that Gagarin actually landed after going to space, not like he’s still up in the air somewhere. Having to be in the launch craft when you land is such a ridiculous technicality lmao nobody should take that seriously. Like he went to space and came back, and he was the first person to do so, nobody can dispute that.

        • utopologist [any]
          hexbear
          36
          1 month ago

          The criterion of having to be in the craft when it touches the earth again came exclusively from the West realizing that Soviet craft would most likely come down onto land because of how large and how far from the oceans the USSR was. Since US craft could come down into the ocean and the astronauts could be easily recovered, they basically got the international aeronautics body to add that little detail in there. Absolute bullshit

          • CyberSyndicalist [none/use name]
            hexbear
            31
            1 month ago

            Sorry but you have to comedown on land for it to count as "landing", if you comedown on the ocean it is technically diving soviet-chad

        • barrbaric [he/him]
          hexbear
          15
          1 month ago

          You know what they say, orbiting is just falling without landing. He never landed. #GagarinTruther

        • dannoffs [he/him]
          hexbear
          24
          1 month ago

          I think you mean Columbia. I don't think anyone would argue challenger counts.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
        hexbear
        20
        1 month ago

        i love the kerbal-ass way they had to eject before landing. if it works it works