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- From: dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com (Dennis Newkirk)
- Subject: Re: Retros & doors opening (was Re: Soviet space disaster?)
- Organization: Motorola
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:07:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.100708.11137@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- References: <1993Jan5.181558.856@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> <1993Jan5.201051.13058@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <6JAN199307482632@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <6JAN199307482632@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.201051.13058@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes...
- >>parachute deployment that killed the solo astronaut, and the second was
- >>an apparent opening of the door of a 3 man spaceship when the retro-rockets
- >>were fired (and the cosmonauts weren't wearing space suits).
- >
- >This is bizarre. It suggests that Russian and American spacecraft
- >doors are designed by the same company...
-
- It wasn't a door. On Soyuz 11 the seperation of the orbital module took
- place when firing of several pyrotechnics all at once instead of in
- some order. The shock from this opened the capsules pressure equilization
- valve at a high altitude, it is normaly opened at low altitude to ease
- opening the hatch.
- This was all analyzed in great detail before the ASTP mission and is
- well documented in the NASA history for ASTP. For those who want all
- the gory details, I hear that a US film maker is preparing Russian films
- of the Soyuz 11 crew recovery, the Soyuz 1 crash and fire, and the
- Nedelin disaster for release soon. That's all I know about it so far
- so don't ask me any questions about it. If anyone knows more please
- post it.
-
- Dennis Newkirk (dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com)
- Motorola, Land Mobile Products Sector
- Schaumburg, IL
-