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ISS Crew Returns in Soyuz Capsule
physicsnerd writes "According to CNN the Soyuz capsule from the International Space Station has landed in Kazakhstan. This is the first time US Astronauts have ever landed outside of the US."
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Because landing in a Soyuz is generally bumpier than in a shuttle, Ken Bowersox, Don Pettit and cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin were seated in the Soyuz on custom-built recliners designed to fit their bodies, NASA said.
This is fantastic. I bet the astronauts were complaining about everything.
My chair is too hard, The in flight meal is too dry, Nikolai kept kicking my seat. You wouldn't get this kind of service on a good old Shuttle.
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Yes, and some even say the landed on the Moon... ?
Tito was just cargo.
But the moon IS the US... Didn't you know?
They also landed on the Moon, as I recall from history. There's no proof of that, however :)
With the increasing trend of corporate sponsorships for space travel, i wouldn't be surprised to see the ISS be remamed the "IIS".
What? Are US Astronauts not allowed outside the country?
the atlantic, does the US own that now ?
Being international waters, I guess it belongs to the country with the biggest navy.
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just you wait.....
Maybe they can report that there's a whole world outside of the US!
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
I wonder what assholes like you would complain about if the US got its shit together.
I'm not overly worried about that possibility.
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The headline says Columbia Streaks Toward Florida Landing. Nowhere in the article does it say that they landed successfully.
10 minutes working on a sig. What a waste.
isn't that what the word "international" means?
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Yeah, except they keep going on an don about, "This is how we fix things on Russian space station" and "My uncle is very important man."
The word 'landed' is the key. As far as I know, all the US manned space flights before the shuttle program splashed into ocean on return. Whether you call it landing, is up to you.
If it is anything like the aviation biz, anything you can walk away from counts...
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Raise your hand if you'd go into space for $30k.
So unless Jesus was in the Apollo progoram, splashdowns wouldn't count.
Did they have a visa? "Papers, please..."
But the moon IS the US... Didn't you know?
Explains the lack of intelligence up there.
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All astronauts and cosmonauts have plaster casts of their buttocks made during training, so that (a) seats can be designed for them if necessary, and (b) bronze butt sculptures can still be erected in the halls of NASA should they meet an unexpected demise.
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