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Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
My museum client (http://www.discoverytours.org) is organizing a repeat of this trip for this September, and I will again be the tour 'expert-in-residence' (http://discoverytours.org/tours/search.php?sear=61). 'Every launch is like the first one' What it's like to witness a spaceship set off for the space station http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12042803/ By James Oberg NBC News space analyst Special to MSNBC Updated: 8:24 p.m. ET March 27, 2006 Editor's Note: On Wednesday night EST (Thursday morning local time), a Soyuz rocket is set to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the international space station. Aboard will be Brazil's first astronaut and two men replacing the current crew. NBC News space analyst James Oberg was there in Baikonur last October when the current crew blasted off and recalls here what it's like to see such a launch close up. The sun had risen an hour earlier, in the east where it was supposed to, and it was shining normally off to our right. But now a very convincing replica was rising with startling speed directly in front of us, accompanied by a very un-sunlike thunder of a thousand waterfalls that rattled the coins in our pockets and made impossible any verbal communication of our sudden awe. |
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Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
"Jim Oberg" wrote:
Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal My museum client (http://www.discoverytours.org) is organizing a repeat of this trip for this September One of these days I've got to find out if I'm still restricted from visiting Russia... D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
"Derek Lyons" wrote in message ... "Jim Oberg" wrote: Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal My museum client (http://www.discoverytours.org) is organizing a repeat of this trip for this September One of these days I've got to find out if I'm still restricted from visiting Russia... They're our friends now, didn'tcha know... Except for when they're not. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
"Damon Hill" wrote in message 31... (Derek Lyons) wrote in : "Jim Oberg" wrote: Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal My museum client (http://www.discoverytours.org) is organizing a repeat of this trip for this September One of these days I've got to find out if I'm still restricted from visiting Russia... Job related, or did you just **** someone off? I still get nervous crossing into Canada. Well not so much INTO as coming back. No real legal issues, just "problems" in the past. --Damon, who'd like to take that trip, too |
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Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
"Derek Lyons" wrote in message ... "Jim Oberg" wrote: Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal My museum client (http://www.discoverytours.org) is organizing a repeat of this trip for this September One of these days I've got to find out if I'm still restricted from visiting Russia... They're our friends now, didn'tcha know... Except for when they're not. Hell, I'm still nervous about them for having elected a President who looks like a middle-aged and embittered version of Ilya Kuriyakin. -- .. "Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few: Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!" --grateful dead. __________________________________________________ _____________ Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org "Mikey'zine": dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org |
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Damon Hill wrote: Job related, or did you just **** someone off? --Damon, who'd like to take that trip, too Boy, that's a trip well worth taking. You'd come back with your head screwed on in an entirely new direction. Or, as Winston Churchill put it: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." :-D Been there, done that. Pat |
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Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
On 29 Mar 2006 11:10:54 -0800, "snidely"
wrote: Considering the source, I'd guess job related...something about knowing what he had to know to do his job, especially. ....Yeah, owing all those creditors in Moscow over that Mail Order Bride fiasco back in '96 would probably prohibit him from going over there :-P 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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Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
OM wrote: [...] ...Yeah, owing all those creditors in Moscow over that Mail Order Bride fiasco back in '96 would probably prohibit him from going over there :-P I thought *I* was supposed to be the one being snide....dqg&r /dps |
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Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
On 29 Mar 2006 14:46:07 -0800, "snidely"
wrote: OM wrote: [...] ...Yeah, owing all those creditors in Moscow over that Mail Order Bride fiasco back in '96 would probably prohibit him from going over there :-P I thought *I* was supposed to be the one being snide... ....Hell, they still want you for all the kiddie porn spam lists you compiled for the Minsk city council. 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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