Green bananas
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, pictured on her first morning in her temporary Houston yesterday, says: "Enjoying sounds, smells, flavours of Earth. Doing great, but gravity is tough!" Her t-shirt reads #GravityGetsMeDown
Green bananas
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, pictured on her first morning in her temporary Houston yesterday, says: "Enjoying sounds, smells, flavours of Earth. Doing great, but gravity is tough!" Her t-shirt reads #GravityGetsMeDown
To each their own...I hate it when they start to go brown (even the slighest). I can only tolerate a mild banana flavour.
But full credit to her for her love of Mangos! Yumm.
High-res (TsPK) video of landing day activities
Why are there two impacts? I thought the soft landing rockets firing and then landing would almost blend into one 'bang', but these are one second apart.
Do the rockets actually propel the capsule up a tiny bit, and then it falls back down?
I see that and it does look rough, but then you read about Boris Volynov on Soyuz 5 and his reentry, losing some teeth on the landing. Wow.
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Awesome footage of a Soyuz landing from inside.Why are there two impacts? I thought the soft landing rockets firing and then landing would almost blend into one 'bang', but these are one second apart.
Do the rockets actually propel the capsule up a tiny bit, and then it falls back down?
Insightful question. I figured that the first jolt was the ignition of the solid landing engines and the second was the landing itself, but if the landing engines really fire at only one meter above the ground (
per Wikipedia) then one second between events does sound way too long.
Responding to "so is that the retros firing and then the capsule hitting dirt?", Thomas Pesquet (
@Thom_astro) said "That's what it is indeed", but question and answer were not really specific enough to explain things.
Do we know if the total impulse of the landing engines is enough to bring the capsule to a complete halt.
~Kirk
