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Need personal accounts of Soyuz entry experiences
On Fri, 04 May 2007 12:09:22 -0500, Jim Oberg wrote:
Need personal accounts of Soyuz entry experiences Does anybody have any good links to personal spacefarer accounts of what it FEELS like to come back to Earth in a Soyuz? I've found a number of good on-orbit diaries and 'letters home' but they all seem to end with a brief, 'then we landed', kind of terminal sentence. I'd like to find some personal accounts of the human experience -- sights, sounds, pressures, even smells of the process. Help, please -- for a feature article. JimO I seem to recall having read some good descriptions by Mike Shuttleworth and posted on the internet. Sorry, I do not have any links. Norman |
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Need personal accounts of Soyuz entry experiences
"Jim Oberg" writes:
Mike, this is great -- the best account so far!! Thank you!! There's an account from Anousheh Ansari of what happens *after* reentry on her blog: http://spaceblog.xprize.org/2006/10/05/second-birth/ Quote: "Before descent, Jeff reminded me to make sure I moved slowly upon landing and to keep my head steady... This helps with the vestibular system’s readjustment to gravity. I followed his instruction and made sure that I did not make any sudden movements. The head of the Training Center handed me an apple that looked appetizing but as soon as I started to take a bite someone from the medical team started shaking his head telling me not to eat it... I guess he was worried that it would make me feel sick. I waited a while but the apple looked too good to give up so I started taking small bites." I quite sure to remember reading something from her about the actual reentry back then, but I can't find it now. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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Need personal accounts of Soyuz entry experiences
"Jochem Huhmann" wrote in message ... I quite sure to remember reading something from her about the actual reentry back then, but I can't find it now. From the Soyuz Flight Attendant Manual (translation to russian outsourced to China): "Please to be remembering the fate of John Glenn when there be streaming flaming chucks of cabin outside viewport." |
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