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Originally Posted by schlaugh
I don't understand why Ms. Yi was surprised to see "fire" streaming away from the Soyuz during the re-entry.
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Perhaps it was more dramatic than the simulations she saw in training. Maybe she didn't even get to practice this failure mode.
New York Times: NASA Official Plays Down a Troubled Soyuz Landing
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Russian news agencies quoted unidentified sources as saying that the astronauts were in serious danger during the descent and that the capsule suffered unusual burn damage during its fiery re-entry to the atmosphere.
According to an Associated Press report from Moscow, Alexander Vorobyov, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Space Agency, confirmed that the descent had problems, saying the Soyuz hatch and the antenna suffered burn damage.
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Maybe whatever happened, when eye-witnessed inches away, afterward seemed just plain more worthy of comment, than when its possibility was mentioned back in cosmonaut school.