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Need personal accounts of Soyuz entry experiences
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 |
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On Fri, 4 May 2007 12:09:22 -0500, "Jim Oberg"
wrote: I'd like to find some personal accounts of the human experience -- sights, sounds, pressures, even smells of the process "...Although the reentry was rough at times, it was nowhere near as rough as having to endure another one of Vladimir's atrocious borcht farts, which somehow managed to overload the air recyclers and totaly contaminate the air supply. His flatulence was so devastating that when they pulled out the LiHO filters from the reentry module, they found they'd been eaten through!" OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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Hi again, Jim:
Not to sound too much like a broken record, but you might amble down to the library and take a free look-see at "Too Far From Home." Although focusing mainly on the unplanned ballistic reentry of the Soyuz TMA 1, there were accounts of several other flights and reentries, that were colorfully described, if for all I know not technically perfect in the details. Cheers, frank On May 4, 12:09 pm, "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 |
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On May 4, 10:09 am, "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 "Pressures" -- ah, that rang a bell. Here's Mark Shuttleworth's account -- telling us it's not all about floating carefree in microgravity with splendid views of the Earth, no, quite the contrary (and all the more thrilling). --- "From a shake-your-bones point of view, the re-entry in a Soyuz can't really be beaten. You are coming in at mach 25 when the atmosphere first sucks you in. You see the blackness of space turning a dull red as the heat builds up around your vehicle. The Soyuz is designed to orient itself correctly for re-entry even if it's a dead craft with no attitude control, so you feel the craft swinging around to ensure that the heatshield will take the brunt of it. Then you watch your spacecraft disintegrate and burn up around you, and the G forces build up till you are in the middle of an inferno with the spare hard drives you brought back on your chest weighting a ton, and the Soyuz spinning like a top to try and spread the heat load out evenly on the shield. You watch bolts and other pieces of metal on the outside melt and run liquid across your window before it blisters and blackens. It's an unbelievable display of forces entirely outside of your control, [with] you, an ant, in the middle of the fireworks display. You know that your survival is totally dependent on the people who put this machine together, that there is nothing you personally can do if it comes apart. It's a hell of a ride." http://interviews.slashdot.org/artic.../04/04/1859255 I was slightly awestruck when I first read this account. I still am. It's a sparkling little gem, especially when you consider that it's (apparently) just tossed off in an e-mail interview, with few of the lapidary strokes of the professional writer. (Perhaps the picture could be cropped just slightly, to even better effect, but I doubt it.) The use of "you" rather than "I/me" (thanks, Jay McInerney!) was an especially clever touch, assuming it was premeditated. But maybe it wasn't. A surprising *un*-breathless (but breathtaking) account of a literally breathtaking personal event. I keep coming back to it. -michael turner http://www.transcendentalbloviation.blogspot.com |
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Need personal accounts of Soyuz entry experiences
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? Was it a Soyuz that some cosmonauts died in when a pressure equalization valve popped open too early during reentry? |
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robert casey schrieb:
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? Was it a Soyuz that some cosmonauts died in when a pressure equalization valve popped open too early during reentry? Soyuz 11 http://www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz11.htm |
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On May 5, 2:32 pm, "Alfred S. Dert" wrote:
robert casey schrieb: 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? Was it a Soyuz that some cosmonauts died in when a pressure equalization valve popped open too early during reentry? Soyuz 11http://www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz11.htm I think Jim was in the market for an account more articulate than "[unintelligible shouts] ... [screams] ... [gasps] ... [gurgles] ....." -michael turner http://www.transcendentalbloviation.blogspot.com |
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Michael Turner schrieb:
On May 5, 2:32 pm, "Alfred S. Dert" wrote: robert casey schrieb: 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? Was it a Soyuz that some cosmonauts died in when a pressure equalization valve popped open too early during reentry? Soyuz 11http://www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz11.htm I think Jim was in the market for an account more articulate than "[unintelligible shouts] ... [screams] ... [gasps] ... [gurgles] ....." Sure. But this was a reply to Robert, not to Jim. And as far as I know there has been no voice recording and no voice radio transmission from Soyuz 11. So: no screams to listen. Good. |
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"Alfred S. Dert" wrote in message
... Michael Turner schrieb: On May 5, 2:32 pm, "Alfred S. Dert" wrote: robert casey schrieb: Soyuz 11http://www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz11.htm I think Jim was in the market for an account more articulate than "[unintelligible shouts] ... [screams] ... [gasps] ... [gurgles] ....." Sure. But this was a reply to Robert, not to Jim. And as far as I know there has been no voice recording and no voice radio transmission from Soyuz 11. So: no screams to listen. Good. Well given the method of death, screams are extremely unlikely. In all likelihood they never knew what was happening to them. -- 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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Need personal accounts of Soyuz entry experiences
Mike, this is great -- the best account so far!!
Thank you!! "Michael Turner" wrote " Here's Mark Shuttleworth's account -- |
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