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Old August 28th 03, 11:10 PM
Kevin Willoughby
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Default Columbia crew not fully suited up during reentry?

Rand Simberg said:
On 27 Aug 2003 05:45:00 GMT, in a place far, far away, Pat Flannery
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

What's this about no pressure suits? I assumed that donning pressure
suits was required under flight rules for reentry


And under what realistic failure mode would their having pressure
suits on have saved them?


Soyuz 11?
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