Re: Buran Website Finds So Far



Dale wrote:

Absolutely true. But the Soyuz incidents occurred early on in the vehicle's
history, and both causes seem to have been addressed conclusively. Do
we have the same sort of confidence returning to flight after Columbia?

I'm not trying to start an argument- just playing devil's advocate. How many
close calls have there been with Soyuz since 1971?


A lot of close calls.
James Oberg wrote a report on them: http://www.jamesoberg.com/soyuz.html
There have been more since the report was written, including the failure of the landing rockets on Soyuz TM-25 in August of 1997, Soyuz TM-34 landing in high winds in November of 2002, the ballistic reentry of Soyuz TMA-1 in May of 2003 with our two ISS crew on board, and Soyuz TMA-2 firing up its RCS thrusters while still attached to the ISS in October of 2003, throwing the station's orientation out of whack by 25 degrees. Of course we all know that throwing the ISS' oriention out of whack doesn't take much- all you have to do is EVA. ;-)

Pat
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