Crazed astronuts...the NASA plan

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html


Duct tape, huh? I guess Apollo 13 taught them a lesson. (;^

Still, I have to wonder about the "brute force" restraint angle. I can't
help wondering just how tough it'd be to try and physically restrain
someone who's losing it in zero-g. I somehow keep imagining a zero-g
version of a hockey fight.

(Anybody here remember the fight scenes at the lunar base
in "Way, Way Out", with Jerry Lewis and that one base
crewman who'd had a nervous breakdown and started drawing
pornographic sketches and wallpapering the place with them?)



Interesting note about Blaha, too (I believe I've heard him mentioned
here a few times disparagingly)...I'd usually expect them to be
depressed at the thought of having to return to Earth.


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"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.
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"mike flugennock" wrote in message
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Interesting note about Blaha, too (I believe I've heard him mentioned here
a few times disparagingly)...I'd usually expect them to be depressed at
the thought of having to return to Earth.

It doesn't surprise me. By the time he visited Mir, it was pretty much a
$#!^ hole already. Quite a bit of your time on Mir would be spent just
keeping the thing going. That and he was stuck on the thing for quite a
long time without much human contact. Must be tough on your typical type A
personality that loves to be doing something productive and interacting with
other people while doing it.

I liked the comment on NASA Watch about a shotgun being carried on Soyuz for
self defense from wild animals that may be around the landing site. Guess
the AP author must have missed that one.

Jeff
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
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"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
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"mike flugennock" wrote in message
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Interesting note about Blaha, too (I believe I've heard him mentioned
here a few times disparagingly)...I'd usually expect them to be depressed
at the thought of having to return to Earth.

It doesn't surprise me. By the time he visited Mir, it was pretty much a
$#!^ hole already. Quite a bit of your time on Mir would be spent just
keeping the thing going. That and he was stuck on the thing for quite a
long time without much human contact. Must be tough on your typical type
A personality that loves to be doing something productive and interacting
with other people while doing it.

according to Dragonfly, Blaha had become rather passive in general by that
point. IIRC Shannon Lucid was his backup, and she basically had to become
his personal handler. Then he's on orbit without his safety net right there
alongside him (they only got vox for an hour or two during each Earth day,
and most of that was reserved for the Russians), and he basically just kind
of went adrift.



--
Terrell Miller


"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the
work of one extraordinary man."
- Elbert Hubbard

Jeff Findley wrote:
Interesting note about Blaha, too (I believe I've heard him mentioned here
a few times disparagingly)...I'd usually expect them to be depressed at
the thought of having to return to Earth.


It doesn't surprise me. By the time he visited Mir, it was pretty much a
$#!^ hole already. Quite a bit of your time on Mir would be spent just
keeping the thing going.


It was supposed to have smelled like a mildew-filled high school
gymnasium locker room, and looked the part also.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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It was supposed to have smelled like a mildew-filled high school gymnasium
locker room, and looked the part also.

Where's Kim Cattrall when you need her?

Scott Hedrick wrote:
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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It was supposed to have smelled like a mildew-filled high school gymnasium
locker room, and looked the part also.


Where's Kim Cattrall when you need her?


Lassie, cum home? :-)

Pat

Jeff Findley wrote:
"mike flugennock" wrote in message
rvers.com...

Interesting note about Blaha, too (I believe I've heard him mentioned here
a few times disparagingly)...I'd usually expect them to be depressed at
the thought of having to return to Earth.


It doesn't surprise me. By the time he visited Mir, it was pretty much a
$#!^ hole already. Quite a bit of your time on Mir would be spent just
keeping the thing going. That and he was stuck on the thing for quite a
long time without much human contact. Must be tough on your typical type A
personality that loves to be doing something productive and interacting with
other people while doing it.

I liked the comment on NASA Watch about a shotgun being carried on Soyuz for
self defense from wild animals that may be around the landing site. Guess
the AP author must have missed that one.

Damn! I knew there was a firearm of some kind carried aboard Soyuz for
that reason, but I didn't know it was a goddamn' _shotgun_.

Good thing no cosmonauts went really really nuts, huh?

--

..

"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

mike flugennock wrote:

(Anybody here remember the fight scenes at the lunar base
in "Way, Way Out", with Jerry Lewis and that one base
crewman who'd had a nervous breakdown and started drawing
pornographic sketches and wallpapering the place with them?)


Schmidlap and Hoffman. ;-)

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:


mike flugennock wrote:


(Anybody here remember the fight scenes at the lunar base
in "Way, Way Out", with Jerry Lewis and that one base
crewman who'd had a nervous breakdown and started drawing
pornographic sketches and wallpapering the place with them?)



Schmidlap and Hoffman. ;-)

Those would be the guys; I wonder if Mark Wade has them listed in his
"fictional astronauts" bios? Or Tony'n'Roger from "I Dream Of Jeannie"?

As I recall, one of those guys punches the other and knocks him up to
the roof.

--

..

"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