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30-yr no-all-Soyuz-rookies tradition -- NOT
AP: By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Smiling and confident, two Russians and an American prepared for their first mission in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft - breaking the nearly 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule. -- Dear APspacers! Hey, enough, already. Malenchenko and Musabyaev blasted off for Mir in mid-1994. Neither had been in space before. None was a veteran of a Soyuz mission, or a long-term space station mission. The crew did very well. The previous all-rookies case, Kovalyonok and Ryumin in late 1977, saw a docking failure and emergency landing. Not auspicious. And you may quote me. |
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"Jim Oberg" wrote in message ... AP: By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Smiling and confident, two Russians and an American prepared for their first mission in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft - breaking the nearly 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule. -- Dear APspacers! Hey, enough, already. Malenchenko and Musabyaev blasted off for Mir in mid-1994. Neither had been in space before. None was a veteran of a Soyuz mission, or a long-term space station mission. The crew did very well. The previous all-rookies case, Kovalyonok and Ryumin in late 1977, saw a docking failure and emergency landing. Not auspicious. And you may quote me. So much for fact checking before releasing an article... You'd think that such facts would be easy for any journalist to check, considering the "fact" was of a non-technical nature. Jeff -- Remove icky phrase from email address to get a valid address. |
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So much for fact checking before releasing an article... You'd think that
such facts would be easy for any journalist to check, considering the "fact" was of a non-technical nature. Sadly, "unprecedented" to a journalist seems to mean "I don't remember it happening" or "It's been at least 2 or 3 years" or the like. Now, I'll give them a bit of credit - checking such a fact is hard. In the case of astronauts, you "only" have to look through the records of a few hundred flights and people (which probably aren't *that* hard to find, but not super-easy necessarily). In the case of other fields it might be ever less clear where you'd start (did anyone ever attempt to jump over a canyon in a rocketcar before Evel Knievel? Or some such). But they could just stop saying "unprecedented" all the time. |
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Well, since I know that I often need a lot of help,
I'm only to happy to offer other folks help. And I try to get more forgiving as I realize how much forgiveness I turn out to need.... "Jim Kingdon" wrote Sadly, "unprecedented" to a journalist seems to mean "I don't remember it happening" or "It's been at least 2 or 3 years" or the like. |
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:06:45 -0400, "Jeff Findley"
wrote: So much for fact checking before releasing an article... You'd think that such facts would be easy for any journalist to check, considering the "fact" was of a non-technical nature. The BBC Online had an article last week (maybe it's still up) which mentioned that Columbia's crew was killed by a fire onboard. I suppose you can come up with a rationalization for saying that, but it came across like the reporter must be recovering from a head injury or something... Dale |
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