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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Soyuz glitch

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/e … l]Dramatic moments  :-\

*But all went well in the end.  Thank goodness.

--Cindy

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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)

Shaun Barrett

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From: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Registered: 2001-12-28

Posts: 2,843

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!
                                      :up:   

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The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping Up and Down.   - Rita Rudner

Commodore

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From: Upstate NY, USA

Registered: 2004-07-25

Posts: 1,021

Re: Soyuz glitch

He was probably just hot dogging it. 

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"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