Posted on 12/01/2010 6:42:51 AM PST by marshmallow
Moscow, December 1, Interfax - The crew of Soyuz TMA-20 piloted spaceship that starts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 5, will take Gospels to the International Space Station, the crew commander Dmitry Kondratyev said.
"The crew attended a prayer service dedicated to our flight. Father Job conducted it. We received church gifts from Father Job and Gospels for ISS. We hope to take it with us and leave at the station," Kondratyev said in his interview posted on the Roskosmos website.
The prayer service was conducted in the Transfiguration Church in Zvezdny Gorodok. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia consecrated the newly built church last weekend. Hegumen Job (Talats) is appointed its rector.
The cosmonaut said that the Soyuz crew is ready for the flight to Baikonur planned for December 3.
Before the flight, Kondratyev and his colleagues Catherine Coleman (USA) and Paolo Nespoli (Italy) will meet with Roscosmos head Anatoly Perminov. Traditional tea party of the crew and leaders of the Russian space department will take place on December 1.
I guess the ACLU doesn’t have offices in Russia, otherwise they would have put a stop to this.
Please don’t let the ACLU find out about this. Remember the uproar Madelyn Murray O’Hare (sp) caused after the crew of Apollo 8 read the Bible from lunar orbit? She’s gone now but her slime have morphed into the ACLU-type organizations that hates religion.
How will this affect NASA’s Muslim Outreach Program?
No way I would ride one of those big Roman candles without the good book.
“...How will this affect NASA’s Muslim Outreach Program?...”
I don’t care one rat’s a$$ about how this is going to affect NASA’s MOP.
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Those Soviet/Russian Roman candles have an exceptional track record of safety, especially when a manned crew is along for the ride. The only two incidents I can remeber is one blew up on the pad just prior to liftoff. The crew ejected and landed safely to fly again. the other was an in-flight abort when the second stage failed to produce enough thrust to achieve any kind of orbit. The crew seperated from the launch vehicle and landed safely, albeit roughly, just west of the Soviet/Chiese border.
Personaly, I’d jump at the chance to ride one. It would be the thrill of a lifetime.
You know I am very concerned about the put off Discovery launch. Something in my gut says that given the upcoming halt of the program that something in line of a Challenger or Columbia could become of it when it finally is a go. Just a feeling I have, but I have been a worrier all my life.
ROFL...........
Just the Gospels?
One blue ray could carry every religious text ever written in every language of the consortium.
But ISS may still be using 5.25 floppies...
Can you even imagine that being allowed for an American crew today?
But the Russians are taking the Gospel?
What the hell has happened to us?
They’d better be careful; those Russian print their own religious tracts, you know!
Odd isn’t it? Plus their government won’t allow gay pride marches in Moscow. The Moscow mayor had called it “Satanic”. They’re teaching Orthodox Christianity or some aspects of it in their schools. And they’re looking to “fast-build” 200 churches in Moscow.
I don’t know if it’s all symbolic or not but it makes you scratch your head. Here, we have commander zero telling the world we’re no longer a Christian nation. Unbelievable.
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