Dumbass Russians: POS Soyuz, Dropped From Space Like Turd, Lands 200 Miles From Correct Destination

[Patriot Games]

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Oct21/0,4670,RussiaSpace,00.html

Soyuz Craft Lands Short of Destination
Sunday, October 21, 2007

MOSCOW - A Soyuz craft veered off its designated landing course Sunday,
coming down more than 200 miles short of its original destination on the
steppes of Kazakhstan. It arrived safely, bringing two Russian cosmonauts
and Malaysia's first space traveler back to Earth, officials said.

A computer glitch caused the landing capsule carrying Russians Fyodor
Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov and Malaysian Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor to end up
about 210 miles west of the designated site near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan,
Russia's Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said.

The craft arrived at 6:36 EDT _ one minute ahead of schedule _ and the crew
was unharmed, he said.

Russian search and rescue teams quickly located the craft, NASA reported on
its Web site. It said all the three crew members were feeling fine.

The spacecraft's descent was unusually steep apparently due to the computer
glitch, and the crew was subjected to a higher than normal gravity load,
Lyndin said.

Yurchikhin and Kotov were returning home after a six-month stint at the
international space station. Sheikh had been at the orbital outpost since
Oct. 12.

Russian Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said space officials and experts
"experienced a few tense moments," but added that the crew was in good
condition.

"All crew members have been recovered and they are feeling quite well,"
Perminov said at a news conference at Mission Control.

Alexei Krasnov, the head of the Russian space agency's manned space
programs, said an official commission was formed to investigate the glitch.

"It's difficult to immediately name a specific reason behind the problem. We
need to do an in-depth analysis," he said.

A similar problem occurred in May 2003 when the crew _ Russian cosmonaut
Nikolai Budarin and American astronauts Kenneth Bowersox and Donald Pettit _
also experienced a steep, off-course landing. It then took salvage crews
several hours to locate the spacecraft because of communications problems.

Yurchikhin and Kotov were returning home after a six-month stint at the
international space station. Sheikh had been at the orbital outpost since
Oct. 12.

 

[kT]

Patriot Games wrote:

It's happened before, nobody died then either.

When the Ares I utterly fails, and finally gets canceled, the Soyuz will
be the only manned rocket available to Americans. Not Americans though,
American civil servants and military pilots. The American government is
doing everything it can to keep civilians out of space. Which is also
clearly why they refuse to human rate both of our liquid EELVs.

Enjoy your manned space program while it lasts. It will soon be over.

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link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of
power. These basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in
some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of
similarity.

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. From the
prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins,
the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime
itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious.
Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common
themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a
suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.

2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. The regimes themselves
viewed human rights as of little value and a hindrance to realizing the
objectives of the ruling elite. Through clever use of propaganda, the
population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by
marginalizing, even demonizing, those being targeted. When abuse was
egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation.

3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The most
significant common thread among these regimes was the use of
scapegoating as a means to divert the people