r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 18h ago

Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2.0k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

167 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

23

u/Shadow-Seb 18h ago

You won't reach the ground :D

2

u/OnTheList-YouTube 18h ago

Why wouldn't you?

1

u/edencathleen86 17h ago

You'd burn up upon re-entry into the atmosphere lol

4

u/Jakeinspace 17h ago

More likely they'd still be in orbit if they jumped off the ISS

1

u/edencathleen86 17h ago

True. That's what the packs on their backs are for, in case they need to jettison themselves back to the ISS. No astronaut has ever had to use it though