Did you know Finland almost had cosmonauts but we refused? Even Afghanistan and Syria has sent people to space, but not Finland.>The Soviet Union also offered commercial joint human spaceflight missions to the United Kingdom and Japan, resulting in the first British and Japanese cosmonauts. In the early 1980s, an offer was made to Finland, with test pilot Jyrki Laukkanen mentioned a potential candidate. The pilots of the Test Flight (Koelentue) refused on the grounds that participation would not benefit the flight or test pilot activity in any way; no further offers were made to Finland.>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interkosmos
Interkosmos program:Red: soviet unionGreen: ParticipatedYellow: Refused
Countries with at least one person sent into space.
you swedish master didn't allow you to go to space
Jyrki Laukkanen, the man who could've become a cosmonaut. In front of the Finnish designed and built L-70 'Vinka' aircraft he helped develop. It was a trainer aircraft for the Finnish airforce, retired in 2022. >>217678085Laukkanen refused himself, didn't see a point in it. He is clearly autistic and only cared about aircraft, not spacecraft.
>>217678071https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_L._KopraGratest ally
>>217678202Books written by Laukkanen. He also has a collection of 50 000 pictures of aircraft. He has flown 150 different aircraft types in his life.>>217678274He's american.
>>217678327He is Finnish-Americans like Matt Damon
>>217678327forgot picture>>217678344so american
>>217677919They looked at fins and felt that there was no need to waste a seat on people that already look like they came from space
Finland can't into space :DDDDDDDDDDDD
>>217678390No, the soviets sent the invite, but we refused.>>217678409correct. But now some space based companies are taking off (heh) like ICEYE
Is it really a measure of success? Most of these countires sent hitchikers to america and russia vehicles
>>217678344If rat borns in stable is it horse?I mean afroamericans are sure black
There is a good documentary about Jyrki Laukkanen>https://areena.yle.fi/1-50654746you can watch it but it's only in Finnish with no english subtitles.He refused all promotions ever offered to him because they would have put him in front of a desk instead of in the pilot seat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2MeiQywVPY
>>217678274>literally named TimmyThat's not a Finn. Doesn't even look like a Finn.
To this day boomers brag about how we "sent a person to space" while in fact it was a USSR+Warsaw pact propaganda play and our "astronaut" was basically a passenger on a space bus and they didn't allow him to touch anything
>>217681019Yes but now your boomers can brag and feel good about themselves. We can't even do that.
we could've been in space but no
