Touch Down! Soyuz off-target but Angkasawan Malaysia Lands Safely
The Soyuz TMA-10 crew module carrying the three spaceflyers, Oleg Kotov—Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor—has safely landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at about 6:36 a.m. EDT (1036 GMT).
One recovery crew of a total of nine Russian transport helicopters has descended upon the landing site to help extract the wobbly legged crew from their spacecraft.
One recovery crew of a total of nine Russian transport helicopters has descended upon the landing site to help extract the wobbly legged crew from their spacecraft.
Despite making an off-target landing, three of the International Space Station's (ISS) latest visitors have safely returned to Earth today, making room aboard the orbital laboratory for NASA's soon-to-launch space shuttle crew.
Expedition 15 cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov as well as Malaysian astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, landed today at about 6:36 a.m. (1036 GMT) inside of a Soyuz crew capsule. Nine Russian transport helicopters swept in to greet the spaceflyers shortly after they touched down on the chilly steppes of Kazakhstan.
"All crew members have been recovered from the crew module and are feeling quite well," Russian mission managers said following the worrisome descent and landing.
Expedition 15 cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov as well as Malaysian astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, landed today at about 6:36 a.m. (1036 GMT) inside of a Soyuz crew capsule. Nine Russian transport helicopters swept in to greet the spaceflyers shortly after they touched down on the chilly steppes of Kazakhstan.
"All crew members have been recovered from the crew module and are feeling quite well," Russian mission managers said following the worrisome descent and landing.
Off-target landing
The Soyuz crew's descent lasted about an hour following a deorbit burn at 5:37 a.m. EDT (0937 GMT), which allowed Earth's gravity to take over.
About halfway through the free-fall to Earth, however, the crew notified ground controllers that the Soyuz had entered into a ballistic descent. The steeper, undesirable trajectory caused the crew to land about 216 miles (347 kilometers) short of their intended landing site.
Expedition 6 crew members experienced a similar problem on May 3, 2003 with their Soyuz descent, but recovery crews took several hours to locate the capsule and extract the spaceflyers.
Russian mission managers announced in a press conference shortly after landing that they intend to fully investigate the cause of the Expedition 15's dangerous ballistic descent.
posted by Awang Sulong @ 9:38 AM
6 Comments:
Alhamdulillah selamat sampai
This is just a waste of taxpayer money, angkasawan is merely a space tourist! We could have spend the money for better things or help the poor rakyat. Cannot even build a proper car after 20 years without the help of Japanese technology.....now want to claim we have a angkasawan! How Dr. Sheikh is not going to contribute much he certainly can use his fame to promote his restaurant at Bangsar.
tahniah diucapkan kepada d.r sheikh muszaphar shukor kerana telah menjejekan kaki ke iss.dan salam takziah kepadah d.r kerana atas pemergian adik beliau.bersabarlah.al-fatihah
[Still a smooth move, in my opinion]
SINCE THIS WHOLE ANGKASAWAN CONTROVERSY HAS INSPIRED ME TO HAVE MALAYSIA BUILD HER OWN ROCKET, I MUST SAY THE PROGRAMME WAS NOT SUCH A BAD IDEA, RIGHT?
Come on, people, let's take advantage of this government initiative and the public debate that surrounds it. Use the criticism and the words of cynics to bolster ourselves in our drive to achieve something praiseworthy. To me, the National Spaceman Programme is an incentive, and it has instilled in my sister a passion for orthopaedics and astro-science.
ONE THING: If I were to be part of a thousand-men team building Malaysia's first passenger-carrying rocket, I would not suggest constructing such a colossal vessel without Russian, American or Chinese help. It'll be even more a waste of taxes if we were to go solitary on rocket-building and thereafter witness an explosion on the launchpad. Imagine the look on the Sarawakians' faces.....that is if we build in one of Sarawak's severely-deforested areas....
AND ONE MORE THING: It's PERFECTLY OKAY that the first MALAYsian in space is a MALAY. This is Malaysia (underline, underline!), for goodness' sake! The Chinese are already well-represented by PRC's space programme, which birthed the Shenzhou spacecraft, the Long March series of vehicles and the first taikonaut Yang Liwei. India also has significant launch capacity. So why don't we now give our Malay friends a chance to do something exciting?
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Would we expect the Soviets to send the first Soviet citizen into space, and not have him/her be a Russian? Or the first Chinese taikonaut to be a Kurd, Pashtun or Siberian? Would it be appropriate of a Nigerian, Englishman or Japanese living as a citizen in South Korea to represent the country as 'first Korean astronaut' (if there isn't one already)?
Isn't it sad that you still talk of malays, indians and chinese, instead you should have said that it is a malaysian
The chinese or the indians have space programs but that in China and India, not Malaysia.
Dude, stop insulting! Ur word shows you are precisely uneducated, this is the government business, you are just a regular citizen and don't even have any permission to talk like that.. Base on your word people can clearly classify you as sampah rakyat, you don't even show ur support to the nation.. And btw stop involving something that doesn't even have any connection to astronaut!! Like seriously ? A CAR? lol, go and check out the status of Malaysian car, it has been classify as a branded car and same level as the Toyota, Nissan etc.. Japanese only provide the info, the rest they did on their own!! Have u done something for the country? No! U just insulting it and put the country down.. What a shame.. Let me screenshot your word and pst to najib fb.. :)
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