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To: NCC-1701

And over a hundred with an on-the-ground accident back in the early days.


79 posted on 01/28/2006 7:57:58 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: Pyro7480

There were nearly five more cosmonauts to add to the list. Two were were involved in an on-pad abort. The launch vehicle was in the process of exploding under them when they managed to fire the launch escape system to pull them free of the problemed launch vehicle. Two more were involved in an in-flight abort. Their roket was going off course and headed for China. They aborted but the g loads nearly killed them. They landed safely, however.

One other had problems with reentry. The orbital module failed to jettison properly so it was pulling the reentry module nose first. The resulting heating started to seep into the spacecraft because of the lack of heat sheilding. The orbital module fianally seperated and the reentry module assumed its proper reentry attitude. But it was a close call.


80 posted on 01/28/2006 8:14:07 PM PST by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED.)
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