LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates

• #380 by ZachS09 on 12 Sep, 2015 01:34
• NASA TV coverage now wrapping up.
• #381 by rickl on 12 Sep, 2015 03:09
• At one point, I heard the callout "chute jettisoned", which made me sit up straight.  That was around the time of their communications difficulties.  I hoped it was a bad translation of "chute deployed", and luckily that turned out to be the case.
• #382 by ZachS09 on 12 Sep, 2015 03:13
• Quote from: rickl on 12 Sep, 2015 03:09

  At one point, I heard the callout "chute jettisoned", which made me sit up straight.  That was around the time of their communications difficulties.  I hoped it was a bad translation of "chute deployed", and luckily that turned out to be the case.
  

  
  You're probably referring to the DROGUE chute being jettisoned. The MAIN chute, if and only if a rare failure occurred, could be "jettisoned" if it shreds like the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator three months ago.
• #383 by rickl on 12 Sep, 2015 03:19
• I think I just heard "chute jettisoned" and I think it was after the main chute was already deployed, and before it became visible on video.  So I had a moment of concern there.
• #384 by ZachS09 on 12 Sep, 2015 03:28
• Quote from: rickl on 12 Sep, 2015 03:19

  I think I just heard "chute jettisoned" and I think it was after the main chute was already deployed, and before it became visible on video.  So I had a moment of concern there.
  

  
  I see; I was just trying to clarify your concern.
• #385 by John44 on 12 Sep, 2015 04:24
• Expedition 44 - Soyuz TMA-16M Landing
  http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9601
• #386 by Chris Bergin on 12 Sep, 2015 21:59
• Someone at the BBC got a bit overexcited over Padalka's record! http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/34232468

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• #387 by Artyom. on 15 Sep, 2015 10:06
• #388 by Lewis007 on 18 Sep, 2015 07:47
• Mogensen received a Danish medal from Queen Margrethe.
  See: http://blogs.esa.int/iriss/2015/09/16/medal-award-for-andreas/
  

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• #389 by Lewis007 on 10 Oct, 2015 07:23
• The Soyuz TMA-16M return crew was officially welcomed in Star City on Oct 9.
  For more info (in Russian) & pics: see http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=3186
  

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• #390 by Lewis007 on 10 Oct, 2015 07:26
• Videos of the Soyuz TMA-16 Star City welcoming ceremony and preceding crew news conference (in Russian)
  
  
  
  
  
• #391 by Prober on 10 Oct, 2015 14:56
• is that an early snow or the normal?
  burr, looks cold