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Originally Posted by darius359au
For those that have never seen these , they are some of the photos of the service module taken by the crew!
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Keep in mind that this was the first time anyone had actually seen the damage. While in the LEM and Command Module, the crew couldn't see the side of the Service Module. There were no cameras to take pictures, no space walks, no telescopes or other spacecraft. They only knew what wasn't working. This was their first time seeing how bad the damage really was.
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Originally Posted by darius359au
apparently one of the scenarios the crew did in their prep for the mission was having to use the LEM as a lifeboat -no one ever really thought it would be used so it wasn't done that often!
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The thinking was along the lines that if anything went so bad that the Command Module wasn't able to support the crew, there probably wasn't a crew left at that point; if there was a crew, they probably wouldn't make it back to Earth.
A truly amazing story.
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Originally Posted by Platapus
I always wondered if Vostok 1 really completed one full orbit.
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Just because he didn't go for one full orbit doesn't mean he wasn't in orbit. If the retrorocket hadn't fired and brought him down, he would have drifted in orbit for a while. The spacecraft was stocked with provisions for several days to allow a natural orbital decay to bring him down.