http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/01/dayintech_0116
So basically, after a rendezvous in earth orbit as a training mission for a potential moon mission:
- Soyuz 5's service module failed to detach at retrofire, twisting the vehicle and leaving the heat shield pointed the wrong way as it re-entered the atmosphere. The interior filled with noxious fumes as the gaskets sealing the hatch started to burn. Eventually, the stress and heat being generated outside the spacecraft caused the connecting struts on the service module to finally give way and flip the heat shield the right way.
- In the chaos of re-entry, some of Soyuz 5's parachute cables fouled, resulting in only a partial chute deployment. Just to ice the cake a bit, the soft-landing rockets failed, too, so Volynov was very aware of impact when his hardy Soyuz module plowed into the earth. It hit the ground so hard, in fact, that Volynov broke his teeth.
- he landed in the Ural Mountains, where he was greeted by a local temperature measuring a brisk minus 36 degrees Fahrenheit With rescue several hours away at best, our intrepid cosmonaut decided to hoof it for safety. He plodded a few kilometers before finding a cheery fire and a brimming samovar in the cottage of a welcoming peasant.
Amazing!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Holidasy are over
And yet again, I completely forget about this thing..
- Was able to get to the farm from Dec. 23 to 28.. well, some of those to town and some to the farm. On the 26th Adams came down and we hit up the boxing day cab in Hazy.. good times, saw maner and kramer as well as ATP - hadn't seen any of them since mid 07 / 06 . The next day was the Lang cab, which culminated back at Betz's place with a 40 of the spiced....
- I'm buying a ping pong table for my basement.
- New Years was farily eventful, went to a party at Pantages' Play House here in Winnipeg. Everyone came up, and we did 'er up until 8 AM. I awoke around 2 PM in decent shape, but by nighttime I had developed a monster cold so I had to miss work the next day and ended up with a 4 day weekend.
- Dec. 30 also brought me a PS3 along with 2 wireless dualshocks, hot shots outtabounds, and HL2: Orange Box. Been gaming those quite a bit lately, as I havn't really gamed at all since early 2004 (ommitting my NES bootable disk for DC, of course...)
- Jan. 3 was the best night of sports in a long long while. I was PIP'ing the SD/IND and the WJHC games, can't believe Indy lost all because of losing a coin flip. I can't believe the format for NFL overtime games, it makes little to no sense to have a game decided (potentially) on random chance. So now my NFL team is gone, at least the Red Wings are still obliterating the competition.
- Started a six week routine in preparation for Cuba. Bought 180 caps of leukic, and devised the following split (of which I have done one workout (1) ):
1) Back/Bi
i.BO ROW 10-8-6-4-4
ii.Lat PD 10x4
iii.Cable Row 4x10-8-6-6 superset with Pullover 3x12
v.Bicep triset (pronated, neutral, supinated) x3x6-8 each
vi. 2xfail of DB preacher curls
2)Shoulder/Tri, rest, 3) Legs, 4) Chest/Bi to be added in here as they are completed.
175 lb. as of Jan. 5/2009 .
Also starting to count calories. 3400 today... should be enough.
- Was able to get to the farm from Dec. 23 to 28.. well, some of those to town and some to the farm. On the 26th Adams came down and we hit up the boxing day cab in Hazy.. good times, saw maner and kramer as well as ATP - hadn't seen any of them since mid 07 / 06 . The next day was the Lang cab, which culminated back at Betz's place with a 40 of the spiced....
- I'm buying a ping pong table for my basement.
- New Years was farily eventful, went to a party at Pantages' Play House here in Winnipeg. Everyone came up, and we did 'er up until 8 AM. I awoke around 2 PM in decent shape, but by nighttime I had developed a monster cold so I had to miss work the next day and ended up with a 4 day weekend.
- Dec. 30 also brought me a PS3 along with 2 wireless dualshocks, hot shots outtabounds, and HL2: Orange Box. Been gaming those quite a bit lately, as I havn't really gamed at all since early 2004 (ommitting my NES bootable disk for DC, of course...)
- Jan. 3 was the best night of sports in a long long while. I was PIP'ing the SD/IND and the WJHC games, can't believe Indy lost all because of losing a coin flip. I can't believe the format for NFL overtime games, it makes little to no sense to have a game decided (potentially) on random chance. So now my NFL team is gone, at least the Red Wings are still obliterating the competition.
- Started a six week routine in preparation for Cuba. Bought 180 caps of leukic, and devised the following split (of which I have done one workout (1) ):
1) Back/Bi
i.BO ROW 10-8-6-4-4
ii.Lat PD 10x4
iii.Cable Row 4x10-8-6-6 superset with Pullover 3x12
v.Bicep triset (pronated, neutral, supinated) x3x6-8 each
vi. 2xfail of DB preacher curls
2)Shoulder/Tri, rest, 3) Legs, 4) Chest/Bi to be added in here as they are completed.
175 lb. as of Jan. 5/2009 .
Also starting to count calories. 3400 today... should be enough.
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