joke_explainer posted:

the whole friendship-7 mission looks utterly terrifying looking back at it with modern standards of still-dangerous spaceflight... but like, shortly after he got going, they discovered that it appeared that his heat shield / landing bag may not actually be firmly attached to the spacecraft anymore, so that was certainly cause for concern, as he'd incinerate immediately hitting the atmosphere. he struggled with constantly rising suit temperature, and adjusted his suit to cool himself... only to find humidity alarms going off, because the condensation from the cooling on his suit. excess humidity meant controls might start short circuiting, so he had to balance humidity and overheating, which didn't seem easy. on re-entry he became concerned his heat shield was disintegrating, along with an extreme corkscrew on his way down that seemed like it might threaten his capability to prepare for landing. once clear and the chutes opened, he has to be reminded to deploy the landing bag manually (though he probably would have remembered!).

he got recovered by a navy boat and it was planned for him to leave through the upper hatch, but he decided it was too hot to attempt it, decided to blow the side hatch with the explosives bolts and told everyone to get out of the way. slamming the plunger down, he actually cut his knuckles through his glove, but got out that way. His first words off the capsule were, "It was hot in there."

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

Reminder that the Mercury capsule was really loving tiny. Just a dude strapped into a can.

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paul_soccer12 posted:

everyone in the idf must die

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Vynar posted:

I went with my family today to see the new Harry Potter universe film. One of the previous was for a film about three smart black women doing space math in a racist society to help America land on the outer space. They joked about wanting to sleep with a young and sexy John Glenn. The actresses seemed good in the preview so I hope the movie will be good. I do not know how prominently John Glenn features in the story but I hope that his portrayal is good.