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- From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Soyuz as ACRV
- Message-ID: <15034@ksr.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 09:49:08 EDT
- References: <64623@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Aug2.235806.14972@iti.org> <1992Aug3.171737.22332@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <Bt8nGw.7LJ.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In-reply-to: jch+@cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Hardwick)
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- In article <Bt8nGw.7LJ.1@cs.cmu.edu>, jch+@cs (Jonathan Hardwick) writes:
- >mll@aio.jsc.nasa.gov writes
- >> Also, Soyuz will need to be certified for a
- >> possible water landing. We do not have areas like the steppes of Asia
- >> to land in like the Russians.
- >
- >Uhhh, this may be stupid, but why not just land on the steppes of
- >Asia, or any other flat land surface that happens to be within reach
- >when an emergency hits? It's not like the capsule would be reused,
- >nor need we worry about the Russians getting their hands on new
- >technology :-) Heck, they'd probably appreciate the return of their
- >raw materials.
-
- As has been pointed out already, Soyuz IS capable of water landings. The
- cosmonauts practice this all the time, two or three Zond reentry capsules
- (which are basically Soyuz descent modules) made water landings, and at least
- one crewed Soyuz capsule has landed in a lake.
- --
- Chris Jones clj@ksr.com
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