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A Russian Soyuz capsule with NASA's Randy Bresnik, Russia's Sergey Ryazanskiy and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency descended under a red-and-white parachute and landed on schedule at 2:37 p.m. local time (0837 GMT; 3:37 a.m. EST) on the vast steppes outside of a remote town in Kazakhstan.
The three were extracted from the capsule within 20 minutes and appeared to be in good condition.
Bresnik, Ryazansky and Nespoli spent 139 days aboard the orbiting space laboratory. The trio who arrived at the station in July contributed to hundreds of scientific experiments aboard the ISS and performed several spacewalks.
They left Alexander Misurkin, commander of the crew, and two Americans, Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei, in charge.
Do you think astronauts on the ISS play a drinking game where they try to land toilet bombs on earth-bound targets? I would.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @11:38PM (5 children)
We've been doing the same old same old low earth orbit bit for decades. Up, down, round and around.
It's boring. Except when somebody dies, then it's sensationalism on crack.
Now if said space capsule returned with three Martians, or Elvis Presley, maybe it would be news.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 16 2017, @01:26AM
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 16 2017, @04:04AM (3 children)
A little review:
2003 - STS-107 - Foam damages Columbia's wing
Shuttle disintegrated during reentry
7 astronauts dead
1986 - STS-51-L - O-rings used outside their design specs
Main fuel tank detonated on assent. Challenger is destroyed
8 astronauts dead (including 1 teacher)
1971 - Soyuz 11 - On reentry, the capsule's atmosphere is vented to space through an open valve
3 cosmonauts dead
1970 - Apollo 13 - An oxygen tank, damaged by North American (later Rockwell) personnel during production, explodes on the way to the moon.
The crew trundles into the LEM to save resources.
Needing a gravity boost from the moon to get home, the crew continues to the moon, swings around Luna, and are recovered alive.
1967 - Soyuz 1 - A spacecraft with 203 known defects [npr.org] is launched to coincide with a historic anniversary.
Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, who knew the mission would be fatal, curses the engineers as he plummets to Earth.
His body liquefies when the capsule impacts the ground.
1967 - Apollo 1 - A spark ignites the interior of the capsule, with its 100 percent oxygen atmosphere.
3 astronauts dead
1957 - "Muttnik" - Laika ("Barker"), a mongrel dog, dies in a Soviet spacecraft when the environmental system fails and the capsule overheats.
(The creature would have run out of air anyway.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 16 2017, @11:07AM (1 child)
A little reminder:
The Apollo missions were not LEO carousel rides.
Apollo 1 never got off the ground.
All of the cited events were received with attendant media hysteria.
So your point is...?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 16 2017, @06:36PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 16 2017, @06:33PM
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fallen_Astronaut.jpg [wikimedia.org]