Re: Peggy Whitson

"Alan Erskine" <alan.erskine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The capsule's so-called "ballistic" re-entry exposed the crew to twice
the usual gravitational forces. The flames Yi described may have been
caused by friction heating the capsule as it fell through the
atmosphere.

They reckon? <sarcasm>

Most likely it's just the default plasma sheath, but yeah, I agree with you.
There's a lot of "no big deal" going on here.

Seems as if we had that before.

Good thing that CRATER software shows that the tiles are safe after all
those hits of foam.....







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