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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."
That's almost as impressive as surviving a flight from New York to LA... in fact, I think they might even have been allowed a knife and fork for their inflight meal... ;)
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Because he went up in a Soyuz capsule???
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I guess it is good to be back. Now, they must get used to Earth again. I wonder if the 4 hours of exercise per day they must do in orbit is enough for them to walk on Earth without feeling exausted.
well.. maybe he would agree because he looked at the safety records and put 1 and 1 together.
sojuz works.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
If the government wants to research muscle wastage and ill health they should save themselves a few billion and round-up some Sunday slashdotters.
"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!
They said that the new crew is getting ready for the first Shuttle visit since the accident. I'm glad the shuttle will be flying again.
AFAIK they have something like Hometrainers and stuff up there to slow that effect down - or they had to power their batteries by cycling ;-)
"At this point, the International Space Station (ISS) is just a photo opportunity for the press" Couldn't agree more - in an article yesterday in a UK broadsheet (might have been the Times, can't really remember) it stated "the new crew will be researching AIDS vaccine"...my immediate thought was that the crew would probably be a bit too busy trying to repair the station, and this was just an attempt to get Joe Public to believe the ISS was at the "cutting edge" of research...
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.
Brazil launched its first successful rocket Saturday from their Alcantarao base in Maranhao. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3948531.stm The two stage rocket, VSB-30, reached a maximum height of 250 km Good to see their program getting back on its feet after last years disaster http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/brazil_failur e_030822.htm which killed 21 of their top people
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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.
According to russian news sites, they fixed it. The culprit was a valve in the system which vents the H2 overboard.
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