Name: Scott
Post Number: 1
Topic: Tech/Sci
Title: Six Month mission ends with Soyuz landing
Writer: William Harwood
Publication Name: Cnet News
Date of Publication: Sept 25, 2010
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-20017636-239.html
After 176 days in space Alexander Skvortsov, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, and Mikhail Kornienko land on earth safely. The two cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut landed safely in Kazakhstan after they left the International Space Station on Friday. The six month long mission went relatively uninterrupted until late July when two coolant loops shut down due to a failure on one of the ammonia pumps. Caldwell Dyson and Douglas Wheelock preformed three complex space walks to repair the pumps. The space station crew was forced to turn off major systems that prevented the space station from overheating.
In Conclusion, the group made it home safely after their six month long mission and for the most part are in good shape. Dyson said that she is upset that she won’t be able to see her Russian counter-parts for the next couple weeks but she will live.
I see that space travel is long and got a glimpse on how it would be like if i experienced it
ReplyDeleteIt is good to see that the countries have gotten over their past problems and differences to work together.
ReplyDeleteI don't completely understand this article. Are they using space shuttles to just go across the world? And if they were in space, how could they have stayed in space for 6 months?
ReplyDeleteyes being in space is nice but for six months seems too much how did they stay there for that amount of time.
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