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If they find Soyuz has a major systems fault after the latest 'landing'...
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message ... Yes, but surely, many of them do not have this problem so it should be relatively easy to fix it, if only by a change in procedure. As has been said many times before, This launching and bringing back people relatively undamaged from space is not easy. If it was easy, we would all go! The Russian way around things seems to be to just make the equipment tougher and only fix the core problem when its fatal. They've had the same sort of problem on two Soyuz missions in a row. There is also a Soyuz docked at ISS which was launched *before* this last failure, so it could very well have the same problem on reentry. This sort of problem could very well result in loss of vehicle and crew. There is very little insulation on the front of the capsule, so if this next service module holds onto the reentry module just a little bit longer, the crew is dead. If I were scheduled to return on that Soyuz, I'd be more than a little bit worried. The Soyuz safety record isn't getting any better. Jeff -- A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein |
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If they find Soyuz has a major systems fault after the latest 'landing'...
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:57:54 -0400, "Jeff Findley"
wrote: If you're really going "by the book" with a craft as experimental as the shuttle you stop flying immediately and don't fly again until the problem, and its possible consequences, is well understood. Well, that is unless it is necessary to fly in order to determine the cause and nature of the problem. The STS-114 PAL ramp foam liberation being a case in point. All the ground tests and computational fluid dynamics work indicated the PAL ramp was safe, but 114 showed that it wasn't. That is, afterall, what test flights are for. Brian |
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If they find Soyuz has a major systems fault after the latest'landing'...
Jeff Findley wrote:
If I were scheduled to return on that Soyuz, I'd be more than a little bit worried. The Soyuz safety record isn't getting any better. Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko, and whoever gets the next tourist seat (Richard Garriott?). If I were the next tourist I'd at least be negotiating a discount now... |
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If they find Soyuz has a major systems fault after the latest 'landing'...
"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
... Jeff Findley wrote: If I were scheduled to return on that Soyuz, I'd be more than a little bit worried. The Soyuz safety record isn't getting any better. Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko, and whoever gets the next tourist seat (Richard Garriott?). If I were the next tourist I'd at least be negotiating a discount now... And wondering if insurance will cover any 'incidents'. |
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If they find Soyuz has a major systems fault after the latest 'landing'...
Why? Only spending a week or two on-orbit, a high gee (8.2 Gee) entry would
be a great end to my vacation. I'd probably spend extra for the option, like the optional space walk. Is it a feature or a flaw? The high gee entry might be a feature. I doubt the spinning out of control, dragging an extra module along for a while, is. -- Craig Fink Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @ -- Jorge R. Frank wrote: Jeff Findley wrote: If I were scheduled to return on that Soyuz, I'd be more than a little bit worried. The Soyuz safety record isn't getting any better. Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko, and whoever gets the next tourist seat (Richard Garriott?). If I were the next tourist I'd at least be negotiating a discount now... |
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If they find Soyuz has a major systems fault after the latest 'landing'...
"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
... "Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message ... Jeff Findley wrote: If I were scheduled to return on that Soyuz, I'd be more than a little bit worried. The Soyuz safety record isn't getting any better. Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko, and whoever gets the next tourist seat (Richard Garriott?). If I were the next tourist I'd at least be negotiating a discount now... And wondering if insurance will cover any 'incidents'. I highly doubt you can get insurance for something like this. -- Greg Moore SQL Server DBA Consulting Remote and Onsite available! Email: sql (at) greenms.com http://www.greenms.com/sqlserver.html |
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