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What does Russia do with Soyuz that returns to Kazakhstan
Hi, Today I read about Gregory Olsen and the other astronauts landing
in Kazakhstan and I thought to mysel, "what does the Russian space agency do with them once they land?" Do they load them on a truck and cart them back to mission control? Do they remove any critical equipment and then leave it there for nomadic tribesement to find and look at? Do they remvoe any critical equipment and then blow it up? I figure it's probably a ways from the nearest big city so I was just wondering. Thanks! |
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autonut843 wrote: Hi, Today I read about Gregory Olsen and the other astronauts landing in Kazakhstan and I thought to mysel, "what does the Russian space agency do with them once they land?" Do they load them on a truck and cart them back to mission control? Do they remove any critical equipment and then leave it there for nomadic tribesement to find and look at? Cut to image of nomadic tribesmen staring at a cosmonaut' testicles lying on the ground... Do they remvoe any critical equipment and then blow it up? Suddenly, the testicles explode... :-) Pat |
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autonut843 wrote: Do they remove any critical equipment and then leave it there for nomadic tribesement to find and look at? I don't know why this creates an image in my head of a Soyuz landing on the planet of the apes.... -A.L. |
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Skylon wrote: autonut843 wrote: Do they remove any critical equipment and then leave it there for nomadic tribesement to find and look at? I don't know why this creates an image in my head of a Soyuz landing on the planet of the apes.... -A.L. Quite a number seemed to be recovered and end up in museums, I remember seeing a flown example at the Warsaw Military museum last year. Tim |
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Thanks.
How big was it. Could you just roll it onto a truck or would you need a crane? You mentioned "Quite a number..." which is my point exactly. They've shot quite a few of them up there. I would think that after a while they'd be saying, "Nyet, we have enough of these used Soyuz modules laying around here, just leave them where they land." Thanks again for the replies, very appreciated. |
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On 2005-10-13, autonut843 wrote:
Thanks. How big was it. Could you just roll it onto a truck or would you need a crane? You mentioned "Quite a number..." which is my point exactly. They've shot quite a few of them up there. I would think that after a while they'd be saying, "Nyet, we have enough of these used Soyuz modules laying around here, just leave them where they land." Well, Soyuz are modified on a fairly regular basis - this is only, what, the sixth TMA version? And it's already had one major anomaly - so some post-flight research would likely be desirable on most of them. In addition, you're going to want to gut it for recylable equipment, and tearing it down is likely to be a lot easier (and cheaper) inside a hangar somewhere than doing it exposed to the elements out on the steppes - this way you only have one trip, to cart it back, rather than having to take all your engineers out and then bring them back, possibly several times. Plus, you'll need to salvage any returned material, some of which may not take kindly to being removed in those conditions. -- -Andrew Gray |
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autonut843 wrote: You mentioned "Quite a number..." which is my point exactly. They've shot quite a few of them up there. I would think that after a while they'd be saying, "Nyet, we have enough of these used Soyuz modules laying around here, just leave them where they land." They can sell them for good cash- no fools, the Russians: http://www.spaceref.ca/news/viewpr.html?pid=4596 Pat |
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Andrew Gray wrote: Well, Soyuz are modified on a fairly regular basis - this is only, what, the sixth TMA version? And it's already had one major anomaly - so some post-flight research would likely be desirable on most of them. In addition, you're going to want to gut it for recylable equipment, and tearing it down is likely to be a lot easier (and cheaper) inside a hangar somewhere than doing it exposed to the elements out on the steppes - this way you only have one trip, to cart it back, rather than having to take all your engineers out and then bring them back, possibly several times. Plus, you'll need to salvage any returned material, some of which may not take kindly to being removed in those conditions. They've run into problems with the sale of the ISS ones though: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...le_020506.html Pat |
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After stripping all the valuable stuff many of them are used for
teaching in space-related universities/institutes/academies where students promptly vandalize them for souvenirs |
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Also one of them was provided to Chinese under a technology transfer
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