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

"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

"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."