• collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Gagarin is one of those super human people that makes me feel grossly inadequate. Look at him. Qualified technically, insane enough to get strapped into a ballistic missile and then eject out of it during re-entry, and handsome too. Cosmonauts and Astronauts are so many sigmas from normal that it’s hard to believe they’re the same species as the rest of us.

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      2 months ago

      Reminds me of a line of Yeager’s from the movie The Right Stuff:

      You think a monkey knows he’s sitting on a rocket that might explode? These astronauts know that. I’ll tell you something. It takes a special man to volunteer for a suicide mission. Especially when it’s on TV. Old Gus, he did all right.