Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Astronauts used to carry a gun into space. Not for aliens. For bears. 🧵 (1/7) #astronomy #history Image: Stafford Space Museum 54619
Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026(2/7) In 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first ever spacewalk. On the way home, everything went wrong. The re-entry system failed. They landed hundreds of miles off course. 150
Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026(3/7) Their capsule came down deep in the Siberian wilderness. A place where wolves and brown bears prowl. Rescue by helicopter would take two days. 170
