01-December-2005, 08:29 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Belgium
Posts: 12,758
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Q do astronauts carry passports with them incase they do have to land on foreign soil?
um, no. That's kind of a silly question.
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It can be an issue however. You don't always know where you'll land indeed. Of course if a space shuttle lands somewhere most people would figure that it most probably is the original crew that's inside, but I vaguely remember a story of one of the first Russian manned flights in which the returned cosmonaut had to identify himself to a nearby (armed?) farmer.
But in general and with the current state of manned space flight, you can find out very rapidly who's standing in front of you as the names of returning astronauts are in the newspapers  .
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