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N7NY8 TIL Yuri Gagarin did not land in his Space craft, Vostok. He ejected at 20,000 feet, parachuting safely to Earth, landing near the Volga River.
awLRy TIL The N1 moon rocket was originally purposed as a super-heavy ICBM capable of delivering a 100-megaton warhead
OZB7 TIL the USSR beat the US at nearly everything in the space race (besides putting humans on the Moon)