Re: Soyuz TMA-11 Comes Home, More or Less...

On Apr 22, 2:13 am, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alfred S. Dert wrote:

Or acting as submarine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_23

I've never heard of it being completely submerged. The Soyuz is designed
to float, and cosmonauts are given training in water landings.
The whole parachute system only weighs a few hundred pounds, so even if
it were waterlogged it wouldn't drag the capsule underwater.
Even the page with photos of the recovery that the article cites shows
it floating:http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/davydov/text/12.htm
The fact that the parachute didn't detach is odd though.
Theres a somewhat garbled description of the landing here:http://www.videocosmos.com/soyuz23.shtm
According to James Oberg's study, a electrical short after the water
landing caused the reserve parachute to deploy also:http://www.jamesoberg.com/soyuz.html

Pat

Interfax now reporting that the descent module came in "hatch first"
instead of heat sheild with signifigant damage occuring, pressure
relief valve damaged and comm antenna burned off. russian officials
give it a criticality of 3 out of 5. See
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJitDZhZSzTx3L37XQOplAlh8fGQD90749E80
.............Doc
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