Not really.
If anything it is a much bigger achievement.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:03, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

you know when he hit the speed of sound
would there have been a sonic boom, like, coming off his own head?

wouldn't that be deafening or something?
(quintsy, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:05, Reply)

it's ok, google told me the atmosphere was too thin to make a proper sonic boom
i'm pretty sure that makes him gay
(quintsy, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:06, Reply)

they should fire him out of a massive cannon here on earth matching the speed he went at up there
so we can hear him "boom"
(quintsy, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:09, Reply)

*shakes room*

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:18, Reply)

erm, how?
it was done 50 years ago (as in jumping from space). How was it an "achievement" in any sense at all?

Unless you mean breaking the sound barrier. I fail to see how breaking the sound barrier in a spacesuit alone is somehow much harder than breaking the sound barrier in a space suit inside a metal box.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:15, Reply)

the spacesuit was from Primark

(quintsy, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:19, Reply)

now, that's an achievement.
trying to get down to earth fast enough before the shoddy stitching comes undone.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 11:19, Reply)