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ISS Crew: Soyuz Landing Live

Olowkow

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Thanks for the reminder, Olowkow. I had heard about this but had forgotten. Am tuning in just in time!
 
AdMan said:
Thanks for the reminder, Olowkow. I had heard about this but had forgotten. Am tuning in just in time!
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I forgot too, and just happened to be reminded by a thread about the commander's video of David Bowie's song.

It is remarkable how we have come to take this stuff for granted. That Soyuz, while really scary, has been very reliable.
 
Olowkow said:
I forgot too, and just happened to be reminded by a thread about the commander's video of David Bowie's song.

It is remarkable how we have come to take this stuff for granted. That Soyuz, while really scary, has been very reliable.
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It's supposed to be quite a ride on the way down, but, yes, it's proven to be very reliable.
 
They're showing the extraction. Some comfy seats for the astronauts to help them deal with gravity again. :)

ETA: Wow, I hadn't realized the capsule was quite that cramped.

The space shuttle would have seemed a luxury ride down in a stretch limo by comparison.
 
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I don't think I'd like being in the Soyuz.:) If I'm not mistaken, the rocket assist just before touchdown was not always part of the Soyuz on the early models. Landing was very brutal. I think I heard final rate was 0.8 mtr/sec and 1.5 on the chute just before the retro firing.

It always strikes me as very incongruous, three guys sitting in a field of grass in their space suits sipping tea after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles in a state of the art space station.
 
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