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Old December 17th 10, 12:19 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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On 16/12/2010 4:55 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:
I looked at this photo:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/ex...p26_400267.jpg
...and here's what I thought:

1.) The Italian astronaut knows he's going to nail our female astronaut.
2.) Our female astronaut knows the Italian astronaut is going to nail her.
3.) The Russian cosmonaut knows he's not going any at all on this trip. ;-)

Pat


I am Russian; I am smiling. :-|
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Old December 17th 10, 04:14 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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On 12/17/2010 3:19 AM, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 16/12/2010 4:55 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:
I looked at this photo:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/ex...p26_400267.jpg
...and here's what I thought:

1.) The Italian astronaut knows he's going to nail our female astronaut.
2.) Our female astronaut knows the Italian astronaut is going to nail
her.
3.) The Russian cosmonaut knows he's not going any at all on this
trip. ;-)

Pat


I am Russian; I am smiling. :-|


The Soyuz TMA-19 crew looked far more serious... right up till the start
of the traditional post-landing potato sack race that was:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/5...wp_946-710.jpg

Pat

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Old December 17th 10, 06:37 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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Pat Flannery wrote:
The Soyuz TMA-19 crew looked far more serious... right up till the
start of the traditional post-landing potato sack race that was:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/5...wp_946-710.jpg


Not (m)any women in the recovery mob there it seems. Perhaps the
person in the brown and white hat with the pom-pom on top. Oh, wait,
there's one off to the right in the light-brown hat. I thought it was
supposed to be China which was running-out of women?-)

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Old December 17th 10, 10:21 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Pat Flannery
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On 12/17/2010 9:37 AM, Rick Jones wrote:
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Not (m)any women in the recovery mob there it seems. Perhaps the
person in the brown and white hat with the pom-pom on top. Oh, wait,
there's one off to the right in the light-brown hat. I thought it was
supposed to be China which was running-out of women?-)


But not places to live:
http://www.businessinsider.com/pictu...lideshow-start
The Guggenheim Art Museum in New York looks like a giant toilet:
http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanage...im-museum.jpeg
Here's a giant turd to flush down it:
http://static.businessinsider.com/im...ally-empty.jpg
I hereby dub this area "Tittyville":
http://static.businessinsider.com/im...-buildings.jpg

Pat ;-)




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Old December 17th 10, 10:40 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Alan Erskine[_3_]
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On 18/12/2010 2:14 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 12/17/2010 3:19 AM, Alan Erskine wrote:



I am Russian; I am smiling. :-|


The Soyuz TMA-19 crew looked far more serious... right up till the start
of the traditional post-landing potato sack race that was:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/5...wp_946-710.jpg

Pat


Glad the flight's over; or glad to have survived reentry?
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Old December 18th 10, 02:13 AM posted to sci.space.policy
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On 12/17/2010 1:40 PM, Alan Erskine wrote:


Glad the flight's over; or glad to have survived reentry?


Soyuz is a tough little critter; on Soyuz 5 the thing came into the
atmosphere front end first with the equipment module still attached, and
the solar arrays working like fins on a bomb. After the propellants in
the equipment module cooked off and it exploded and fell off, the
landing module turned around to the correct attitude and descended,
though with its front hatch and parachutes damaged by the heat.
The thing hit so hard that the cosmonaut got some of his teeth knocked
out, but he survived;in fact, by the time the recovery team showed up he
had left the capsule and walked to a nearby farm house...no doubt for a
stiff drink of vodka.
In the case of the Soyuz I8A flight, the spacecraft pulled 21.3 g's on
the way down after an in-flight abort put the crew down near the Chinese
border...where the capsule rolled down a mountainside till the parachute
caught in the foliage, preventing it from falling into a 500 foot deep
chasm. The wisdom of abandoning the original automatic parachute
jettisoning system on landing (after a unmanned flight fired its landing
rockets and jettisoned its parachute while still a few thousand feet in
the air) was hereby proved in best cliff-hanger tradition. ;-)
There have been several ballistic reentries of Soyuz capsules rather
than the normal lifting one, but it always seems to get the crew down
alive, if maybe a bit bruised and scared ****less.
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Old December 18th 10, 10:42 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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On 18/12/2010 12:13 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 12/17/2010 1:40 PM, Alan Erskine wrote:


Glad the flight's over; or glad to have survived reentry?


Soyuz is a tough little critter; on Soyuz 5 the thing came into the
atmosphere front end first with the equipment module still attached, a


Oh, that's happened recently on a couple of ISS returns as well!
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Old December 19th 10, 03:26 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Pat Flannery
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On 12/18/2010 1:42 PM, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 18/12/2010 12:13 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 12/17/2010 1:40 PM, Alan Erskine wrote:


Glad the flight's over; or glad to have survived reentry?


Soyuz is a tough little critter; on Soyuz 5 the thing came into the
atmosphere front end first with the equipment module still attached, a


Oh, that's happened recently on a couple of ISS returns as well!


Yeah, but I don't think it was anywhere near as severe as in the case of
Soyuz 5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_5
Volynov thought he was going to die, so he took his flight notes and
put them inside his flight suit to hopefully protect them from being
incinerated when the hatch burned through.
The reason so many Soyuz have done ballistic rather than lifting
reentries is actually a safety feature of the guidance system. If it
detects anything at all going wrong with the lifting reentry, it
immediately defaults to the ballistic reentry mode, as although the g
forces are a lot higher, it's safer than having the spacecraft doing a
improper lifting reentry which could result in it being destroyed; I
imagine by either diving into the atmosphere at too steep of a angle and
burning up, or bouncing off of it followed by a fatal near-vertical fall
into it with too high of g forces.

Pat


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Old December 19th 10, 05:11 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Doug Freyburger
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Pat Flannery wrote:

Soyuz is a tough little critter; on Soyuz 5 the thing came into the
atmosphere front end first with the equipment module still attached, and
the solar arrays working like fins on a bomb. After the propellants in
the equipment module cooked off and it exploded and fell off, the
landing module turned around to the correct attitude and descended,
though with its front hatch and parachutes damaged by the heat.
The thing hit so hard that the cosmonaut got some of his teeth knocked
out, but he survived;in fact, by the time the recovery team showed up he
had left the capsule and walked to a nearby farm house...no doubt for a
stiff drink of vodka.
In the case of the Soyuz I8A flight, the spacecraft pulled 21.3 g's on
the way down after an in-flight abort put the crew down near the Chinese
border...where the capsule rolled down a mountainside till the parachute
caught in the foliage, preventing it from falling into a 500 foot deep
chasm. The wisdom of abandoning the original automatic parachute
jettisoning system on landing (after a unmanned flight fired its landing
rockets and jettisoned its parachute while still a few thousand feet in
the air) was hereby proved in best cliff-hanger tradition. ;-)
There have been several ballistic reentries of Soyuz capsules rather
than the normal lifting one, but it always seems to get the crew down
alive, if maybe a bit bruised and scared ****less.


Who needs new editions of Roadrunner and Coyote. I want films of these
events. Yikes!
 




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