This was because they had rockets that fired precipitously close to the ground which cushioned the landing to something like 20 mph IIRC. If those rockets failed for any reason there would be a very big splat.
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Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
To be fair the Soviet cosmonauts did land in the Kazakh steppe. I mean sure the landings were probably hard but they didn’t die.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
In Russia, people have always been expendable.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
That reminds me about Vladimir_Komarov on Soyuz_1.
He went up there knowing he was likely going to die because of the build problems with the early Soyuz capsules.
Soyuz 1 engineers reported 203 design faults to party leaders, but their concerns “were overruled by political pressures for a series of space feats to mark the anniversary of Lenin’s birthday”.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This is why I 100% believe in the “lost cosmonaut” theories.
Even stuff like probes for Venus they kept absolutely secret if they failed - and those didn’t kill people!
eyes@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They did have to give them a special gun so they weren’t killed by bears though.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
space bears?
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Bears that realize once you crack that Soyuz shell there’s a creamy cosmonaut middle.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Crunchy on the outside, creamy on the inside. And still hot, probably.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
why have we not been arming nasa astronauts against these devious space bears or did they only learn about creamy delicious cosmonaut from soyuz capsules?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Well, the Russians had a sea, but they emptied it. So land it is.