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Any images of Soyuz DM on the ground?
Has anyone seen any images of the Soyuz
Descent Module on the ground -- in the mud -- near the river, where it landed? |
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There were some videophone images of crew extraction from the capsule
broadcast on nasa tv. Pretty dark but you could see that it was on ground (not, say, knee deep deep water) and the crew were being taken out the side of the capsule. I'm pretty sure it was upright, but with shaky, low res camera and a black capsule in the dark, I'm not 100%. Jim Oberg wrote: Has anyone seen any images of the Soyuz Descent Module on the ground -- in the mud -- near the river, where it landed? |
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Thanks, I'll review the tape again....
"hop" wrote There were some videophone images of crew extraction from the capsule broadcast on nasa tv. Pretty dark but you could see that it was on ground (not, say, knee deep deep water) and the crew were being taken out the side of the capsule. I'm pretty sure it was upright, but with shaky, low res camera and a black capsule in the dark, I'm not 100%. |
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I'm getting more serious in my search for images of the Soyuz on the ground,
in the mud, near the small river.... I'll review the NASA TV tape for videophone images. If the conditions were as bad as expected, would a 1-rev or 2-rev delay have promised drier regions, along with daylight landing? Does anyone know if the crew or their backups had ever trained for this direct vertical extraction procedure? Has any other long-duration crew EVER been directly extracted this way? From today's On-Orbit Status Report (courtesy spaceref.com) -- maybe a landing delay was judged imprudent with the questionable backup battery? During last Sunday's undocking & landing of Soyuz TMA-5/9S, two transient off-nominal events took place: (1) Temporary inability by VC8 Vittori to pressurize his Sokol suit after ingress (good ventilation, but no O2), remedied by re-donning the suit to re-seat the seals, but delaying the undocking by 3 min 40 sec (and the subsequent descent burn by 2 sec); (2) Inability by Soyuz crew to reconnect the two Soyuz batteries to the ISS, planned for one more hour of charging from the combined power system after FGB port hooks had opened (Soyuz hooks still closed) due to an overlooked computer inhibit. The reconnection was judged unnecessary, and the descent & landing went off nominally. [Times: Undocking -- 2:44pm EDT; deorbit burn -- 5:16pm (4m 19s); plasma trail visible to SAR helicopters -- 5:50pm; landing -- 6:08pm; first crew member extracted -- 6:25pm.] |
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So there had been some videophone images of two of the crew
being pulled out, at the landing site, on NASA TV. I took some stills off the screen. The ground appears firm, people walk on it without feet sinking into any mud. Navias (JSC PAO) voice-overs that two helicopters did land (there are at least a dozen different people in various scenes, all of them clean), and that the crew was put onto one of the helicopters for transport to Arkalyk. There's no indication they were winched up to any helo hovering in mid-air. The Russian account that said special deployable ladders were used by rescuers to descend to the ground and extract the crew -- appears to be garbled. |
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Jim Oberg wrote:
they were winched up to any helo hovering in mid-air. The Russian account that said special deployable ladders were used by rescuers to descend to the ground and extract the crew -- appears to be garbled. My personal (and purely speculative) opinion, is that the ground was judged too muddy for traditional symbolic / PAO activities. If you can land two MI8s, I don't see why you couln't land a couple more (on the sort of terrain common in the landing zone...) FWIW, very nice pictures of the EXP 9 landing post landing activities can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-9/ndxpage57.html One thing worth noting is that a number of ground vehicles are normally involved. |
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"Jim Oberg" There's no indication they were winched up to any helo hovering in mid-air. One report said that they were put into those lie-down type baskets and hoisted out. Glad you found some pics, though. |
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