http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzi8FXlFg9sJust think what they did.
They strapped themselves to gigantic tanks of liquid oxygen that could have exploded below them.
Some of them burned to death in order to teach others a lesson about emergency safety doors.
Hundreds of thousands of moving parts right below them and above them, each one of which could fail and cause a catastrophic domino effect.
Computers so primitive that the PCs and Macs we're using right now would put them to shame, made sure their air was recycled and their attitude was correct.
They lit themselves on fire to escape the gravity well, and rode that flaming chariot into the sky, past the veil of the atmosphere and out into the great beyond.
NASA and the Soviet Space Program- separated by country and politics, but forever united in the friendship of science, progress, and the eternal journey of discovery.
We lost good people in that journey- Gagarin, Korolyov, Komarov, Grissom, White II, Chaffee.
They gave their all so we might take our first tentative steps out into the endless void.
Remember them, /mlp/.