not in that particular incident, but heroism (which i'll bet you they dont see as such) is their daily life up there.
Mike Foale once was asked about his moments after Mir collided with Progress. something to the effect "werent you scared that perhaps the hull got damaged and may be you're running out of air?" what he answered was (i'm heavily paraphrasing) "well, if leak would have been too bad, i would have felt air rushing from my lungs and that was not the case, i knew there was a leak but we had time, so we disconnected cables and then sealed off the damaged module".
if this is not heroism, what is?
another story.
apollo 12, Pete Conrad is the commander. take off. about 1 minute into the flight a bolt of lightning hits the spaceship. all instrumentation fails. there is about 10 seconds of communication between them and the ground about whether this is an actual problem and how to fix it. they did. and guess what, all the while Pete has the abort handle in his hand and he never uses it.
i'm sure they enjoy what they do. but i cannot see how that can be called selfish other than in a very narrow sense of the word.
kudos to the austronauts and cosmonauts
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how is that a problem? isnt that a healthy driver to keep innovating?
Mike Foale once was asked about his moments after Mir collided with Progress. something to the effect "werent you scared that perhaps the hull got damaged and may be you're running out of air?" what he answered was (i'm heavily paraphrasing) "well, if leak would have been too bad, i would have felt air rushing from my lungs and that was not the case, i knew there was a leak but we had time, so we disconnected cables and then sealed off the damaged module".
if this is not heroism, what is?
another story.
apollo 12, Pete Conrad is the commander. take off. about 1 minute into the flight a bolt of lightning hits the spaceship. all instrumentation fails. there is about 10 seconds of communication between them and the ground about whether this is an actual problem and how to fix it. they did. and guess what, all the while Pete has the abort handle in his hand and he never uses it.
i'm sure they enjoy what they do. but i cannot see how that can be called selfish other than in a very narrow sense of the word.
one has to admire their quiet selfless heroism.