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ISS Expedition 9 Crew Finally Returns to Earth
neutron_p writes "International Space Station Expedition 9 crewmembers, Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke landed on target in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 8:36 p.m. EDT Saturday after 188 days in space."
"Space has no gravity,"
So how does the Earth orbit the Sun? I'm tired of that particular bit of ignorance. There's a lot of gravity in earth orbit. That's what keeps things there!
If I were an astronaut, I'd prefer to be going in the Soyuz - FAR better safety record.
Check out http://www.webgeordie.co.uk/borat/broadwater.htm for a response from James Broadwater, Republican, to one of his most famous interviews. Hilarious!
That is not that far fetched; last year there was an experiment at the Freie Universität Berlin about possible physiological and psycholocigal effects of (long time ) space travel.
I googled for an english article about the experiment.
They spent 188 days in space. The longest stay in space was 438 days, by a Russian cosmonaut aboard Mir. He's still alive and well as far as I'm aware.