Astronaut Re-entry thriller


	Astronaut Re-entry thriller

deb2012

5-4-2008 1:14 PM

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I've been followering her career for a while.

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href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/whitson.html">Peggy Whitson</A> has 
painted a dramatic picture of her return journey to Earth from the International 
Space Station on 19 April, when her crew's <A 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TMA-11">Soyuz capsule</A> took an 
unexpected trajectory that gave the astronauts a very rough ride.<BR><BR>During 
re-entry, the capsule switched to "ballistic re-entry mode". This set the craft 
on a <A 
href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13745-russian-spacecraft-made-steep-bumpy-return-to-earth.html">much 
steeper, more direct trajectory</A> to Earth than intended and it landed 475 
kilometres away from the intended site.<BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2008/05/astronaut-recalls-going-ballistic.html">Whitson described the ordeal today during press interviews at NASA's <A 
href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2008/05/www.jsc.nasa.gov">Johnson Space Center</A> in Houston, Texas. For one 
"very long" minute, she said, the astronauts suffered forces of 8.2 times normal 
gravity - nearly double the force they'd expect on a normal descent.<BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2008/05/astronaut-recalls-going-ballistic.html">"There's an old pilot saying - any landing you can walk away from is a good 
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