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Orbiting fuel depot concept
Pat Flannery wrote:
Derek Lyons wrote: That's what makes Soyuz so problematic to discuss in relation to safety. When it does screw up, the crew seems to get out with only mild injuries; on the other hand, it screws up _a lot_. The question is why is are such ongoing problems tolerated? Not just by the Russians, but in the double standards of the observers and commentators. Because it's their spaceship, and if you want to use it, it's up to you. If you say that you don't want to use it, then go ahead and find or build a alternative to use. They'll still go up to and down from the ISS in it, there just won't be any US astronauts on board during those trips. Nice way to ignore the second half of the statement. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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Orbiting fuel depot concept
Derek Lyons wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote: Because it's their spaceship, and if you want to use it, it's up to you. If you say that you don't want to use it, then go ahead and find or build a alternative to use. They'll still go up to and down from the ISS in it, there just won't be any US astronauts on board during those trips. Nice way to ignore the second half of the statement. Well, everyone knows that the thing has demonstrated way off-kilter behavior on a lot of its flights, so that the reliability (particularly regarding reentry) is pretty poor. But on three separate occasions (Soyuz 5, Soyuz TMA-10 and 11) it has gotten into a really nasty situation where it ended up going into the atmosphere nose-first with the service module still attached, then had the service module burn off, spun around and still made a survivable landing. I'm sure the crew on these flight were scared ****less on the way in, and never wanted to fly on one again, but the fact it could actually _survive_ something like that says a lot about how tough it is in a desperate situation; and then of course there is descending into the freezing lake during a blizzard, doing a successful launch abort, Having its retro engine malfunction, and a inflight abort that resulted in it pulling 20 G's on the way down...then rolling down a mountainside for good measure on landing. You are measuring it against the Shuttle, when you should be measure it against something like it in concept, say Gemini or the Apollo CSM. Both those together flew far fewer missions than Soyuz has, and both got into some pretty hairy situations that could have ended up with dead crews, despite their relatively few flights in comparison to Soyuz. Pat |
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Orbiting fuel depot concept
Pat Flannery wrote:
Derek Lyons wrote: Pat Flannery wrote: Because it's their spaceship, and if you want to use it, it's up to you. If you say that you don't want to use it, then go ahead and find or build a alternative to use. They'll still go up to and down from the ISS in it, there just won't be any US astronauts on board during those trips. Nice way to ignore the second half of the statement. Well, everyone knows that the thing has demonstrated way off-kilter behavior on a lot of its flights, so that the reliability (particularly regarding reentry) is pretty poor. Which doesn't lessen the hurricane level handwaving you and Jeff are indulging in one bit. You are measuring it against the Shuttle, when you should be measure it against something like it in concept, say Gemini or the Apollo CSM. No, I'm attempting to measure it against an objective standard. You and Jeff are doing everything possible to avoid doing so. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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