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#1 2004-10-16 05:55:04
- Palomar
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Re: Soyuz glitch
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/e … l]Dramatic moments :-\
*But all went well in the end. Thank goodness.
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#2 2004-10-16 06:42:26
- Shaun Barrett
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Re: Soyuz glitch
Reminds me of the superb piloting skills and training of astronauts like Neil Armstrong and the beleaguered Apollo XIII crew, to name but a few.
That Russian cosmonaut must be right on top of his game - marvellous stuff!
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#3 2004-10-16 09:41:40
- Commodore
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Re: Soyuz glitch
He was probably just hot dogging it. 
"Yes, I was going to give this astronaut selection my best shot, I was determined when the NASA proctologist looked up my ass, he would see pipes so dazzling he would ask the nurse to get his sunglasses."
---Shuttle Astronaut Mike Mullane
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