Tereshkova's re-entry staged

I just received a copy of an italian article that reports that in a recent
interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Valentina Tershkova revealed some new
facts about her spaceflight.
For those who read Italian, this is the actual text:

In un'intervista a Komsomolskaya Pravda la Tereshkova racconta che all'inizio
il lancio, quel 16 giugno 1963, era andato bene. «Fino all'ingresso nell'orbita
terrestre» ha spiegato. Dopo una trentina di giri intorno alla Terra,
però, i tecnici si accorsero di un tragico errore. La navicella Vostok,
con le sue orbite, «si stava allontanando dal pianeta e non avvicinando».
Presto sarebbe sfuggita alla attrazione terrestre per perdersi nello
spazio. Dal centro di controllo furono impostate le necessarie correzioni.
Ma i guai per la povera Valentina non finirono.
La navicella era minuscola, lei rimase legata al sedile con la tuta e il
casco addosso per tutte le 70 ore e 50 minuti del volo. L'assenza di peso la
faceva star male. «A un certo punto ho vomitato», ha raccontato. Il secondo
giorno ha iniziato a farle male la gamba destra, al terzo il dolore si era
fatto insopportabile. Il casco premeva su una spalla, un rilevatore sulla
testa le causava un continuo prurito, le condizioni all'interno della tuta
col vomito e tutto il resto si posso solo vagamente immaginare. Le navicelle
Vostok non erano in grado di assicurare la sopravvivenza dei cosmonauti al
momento dell'impatto con la superficie terrestre. Così, dopo il rientro,
Valentina fu «sparata fuori» da una carica esplosiva, come avviene sui jet
in caso di emergenza.
«Ero terrorizzata mentre scendevo col paracadute », ha raccontato. «Sotto di
me c'era un lago e non la terra ferma. Ci avevano addestrato a questa
eventualità ma non sapevo se avrei avuto la forza necessaria per
sopravvivere». Il vento, fortunatamente, la spinse via. Ma nell'impatto
Valentina sbattè la faccia contro il casco e si provocò un gran livido sul
naso. Era dolorante, sporca, semisvenuta e venne portata subito in ospedale.
Ma per l'onore dell'Unione sovietica il rientro della prima donna dallo
spazio doveva essere trionfale. Così, appena si riprese, fu riportata nella
stessa zona con una tuta immacolata e pronta a esibire il suo miglior
sorriso per le cineprese.

In summary: the flight was going as planned until, after about thirty
orbits, it was found that the capsule was moving away from the Earth and may
make it impossible to re-enter the atmosphere. Ground control altered the
orbit and the problem was solved. Valentina (as is well known) vomited
during her flight and was physically unwell. On day 2. her right leg began
to hurt, on day 3, the pain had become unbearable. Her helmet put pressure
on her shoulder, a sensor on her head gave her an itchy sensation. When she
ejected during the landing procedure, to land with her own parachute, she
hit the ground badly due to high winds and the helmet hurt her face. Her
spacesuit was filthy with vomit, her face was bloodied and she was very ill.
Because of her injuries she had to be hospitalized. After recovering, she
was brought back to the landing site, cleaned up and given a pristine
spacesuit to be filmed for the official news releases.

What is most interesting about this was the past Soviet/Russian harassment
of spacehound Jim Oberg, when in public press conferences he asked the
pointed questions of Tereshkova, and was required to leave, rather thanhear
the truth.
Thank you for the translation.

In summary: the flight was going as planned until, after about thirty
orbits, it was found that the capsule was moving away from the Earth and
may make it impossible to re-enter the atmosphere. Ground control altered
the orbit and the problem was solved. Valentina (as is well known) vomited
during her flight and was physically unwell. On day 2. her right leg began
to hurt, on day 3, the pain had become unbearable. Her helmet put pressure
on her shoulder, a sensor on her head gave her an itchy sensation. When
she ejected during the landing procedure, to land with her own parachute,
she hit the ground badly due to high winds and the helmet hurt her face.
Her spacesuit was filthy with vomit, her face was bloodied and she was
very ill. Because of her injuries she had to be hospitalized. After
recovering, she was brought back to the landing site, cleaned up and given
a pristine spacesuit to be filmed for the official news releases.




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"Giovanni Abrate" wrote in message
news
I just received a copy of an italian article that reports that in a recent
interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Valentina Tershkova revealed some new
facts about her spaceflight.
For those who read Italian, this is the actual text:

Italian snipped


In summary: the flight was going as planned until, after about thirty
orbits, it was found that the capsule was moving away from the Earth and
may make it impossible to re-enter the atmosphere.


Something here doesn't sound right. This would mean something was adding
energy to the vehicle.

My guess is a mistranslation somewhere along the line?


Ground control altered the orbit and the problem was solved. Valentina (as
is well known) vomited during her flight and was physically unwell. On day
2. her right leg began to hurt, on day 3, the pain had become unbearable.
Her helmet put pressure on her shoulder, a sensor on her head gave her an
itchy sensation. When she ejected during the landing procedure, to land
with her own parachute, she hit the ground badly due to high winds and the
helmet hurt her face. Her spacesuit was filthy with vomit, her face was
bloodied and she was very ill. Because of her injuries she had to be
hospitalized. After recovering, she was brought back to the landing site,
cleaned up and given a pristine spacesuit to be filmed for the official
news releases.




--
Greg Moore
SQL Server DBA Consulting
Email: sql (at) greenms.com http://www.greenms.com

Could be, someone should look up the original interview.
Giovanni

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
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"Giovanni Abrate" wrote in message
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In summary: the flight was going as planned until, after about thirty
orbits, it was found that the capsule was moving away from the Earth and
may make it impossible to re-enter the atmosphere.


Something here doesn't sound right. This would mean something was adding
energy to the vehicle.

My guess is a mistranslation somewhere along the line?

--
Greg Moore
SQL Server DBA Consulting
Email: sql (at) greenms.com http://www.greenms.com

Giovanni Abrate wrote:
In summary: the flight was going as planned until, after about thirty
orbits, it was found that the capsule was moving away from the Earth and
may make it impossible to re-enter the atmosphere.

Something here doesn't sound right. This would mean something was adding
energy to the vehicle.

My guess is a mistranslation somewhere along the line?

Could be, someone should look up the original interview.

My guess would be a problem with the horizon sensor and/or capsule
stabilization system.

--
Dave Michelson

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:25:28 -0600, Pat Flannery

Valentina (as is well known) vomited
during her flight and was physically unwell.

Pat

She was not the first to experience air sickness, was she?
Any US astronauts sick in space too?

Stan

Giovanni Abrate wrote:
In summary: the flight was going as planned until, after about thirty
orbits, it was found that the capsule was moving away from the Earth and may
make it impossible to re-enter the atmosphere.


Orbital mechanics don't work like that.


Ground control altered the
orbit and the problem was solved.

Neat trick, considering you would only have small compressed nitrogen
attitude thrusters to work with.
She was attempting to maneuver the spacecraft manually, and got it
misaligned:
http://www.astronautix.com/flights/vostok6.htm
I have no idea what "When first trying manual orientation of the
spacecraft, I closed the cotton (?) and could feel an explosion on the
ejection of the can." means, but it may involve farting while attempting
to change her sanitary napkin, as later we read: "The hygienic napkins
had a bad smochen and were very small. I used them to clean my teeth."
Considering that she "mainly ate the black bread and tubed onions." the
farting hypotheses seem likely, as more than one person has had
foul-smelling smochen come out of their can after eating a onion,
particularly if it was still in the tube; this may also explain the
vomiting and her confused mental state due to heavy metal poisoning from
the lead alloy tube reacting with her stomach acid.


Valentina (as is well known) vomited
during her flight and was physically unwell. On day 2. her right leg began
to hurt, on day 3, the pain had become unbearable.


From what I heard, it was her catheter that began to cause pain as it
irritated her urinary canal.
Either that, or she accidentally inserted here toothbrush into her
vagina while cleaning her teeth with her sanitary napkins in her
lead-crazed state.
But this: "My mental state was the same as one earth." suggests that she
may have had a fondness for eating metal objects
prior to the flight, and the can she ejected might have literally been a
can of some sort.
This would explain her cryptic nickname in the cosmonaut corps:
"Scrap-metal piles". :-D

Pat

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:


Something here doesn't sound right. This would mean something was adding
energy to the vehicle.


It's those onion farts. :-)

Pat

wrote in
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:25:28 -0600, Pat Flannery


Valentina (as is well known) vomited
during her flight and was physically unwell.

Pat

She was not the first to experience air sickness, was she?
Any US astronauts sick in space too?

It's so common that it ceased to be newsworthy years ago.
Most who do get ill seem to recover in a day or so.

--Damon

wrote:
She was not the first to experience air sickness, was she?
Any US astronauts sick in space too?


Quite a few to a greater or lesser extent; it's fairly common on the
first couple of days of weightlessness.
The Soviets were the first to encounter it with Titov's Vostok 2 flight.
Unlike Mercury, Vostok was big enough for the cosmonaut to unbuckle
themselves from the seat and float around inside the cabin a bit. The
movement was what set the space sickness off.
Space sickness was predicted before space exploration started, but who
exactly is going to be affected by it is still a mystery.
One odd effect is that an astronaut who flew a spaceflight with no
symptoms can fly a later flight and get space sickness.
NASA was interested enough in it to do one of the oddest space
experiments ever to understand it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Frog_Otolith

Pat