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22-April-2008, 01:00 AM
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New Facts Emerge from Soyuz Emergency Landing
The facts behind the "ballistic re-entry" of the Soyuz descent capsule are beginning to come to light. According to several news sources, after the capsule made an unusual steep descent through the atmosphere, putting it at least 400km off-target, the parachute was set alight causing a small bush fire on landing. The crew, who had [...]
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22-April-2008, 01:59 PM
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Very scary when you think that this 1960s technology is all we'll have left when the Shuttle gets retired in 2010 and we may not have any other way into space for a decade or more....
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