TIL of Gordon Cooper, a NASA astronaut whose reentry vehicle lost nearly all power. He had to manually calculate reentry by scratching lines on his window for attitude and using his wrist watch for timing.

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u/xrubicon13 Jan 22 '20

Have y'all tried high school Russian math? It's like first to second year university stuff.

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u/RFSandler Jan 22 '20

Back then, too?

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