There’s a shotgun in the “survival kit” of every Soyuz spacecraft – added, the story goes, after a Soviet astronaut crew landed in a remote area to find themselves fighting off wolves.
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When the space shuttle Columbia burned up on re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere 2003, all seven astronauts on board were killed. There were, however, still three humans left in space — the astronauts on the International Space Station. Two Americans and a Russian were left to deal with the aftermath of the accident. They had to cope with the loss of their friends, which was hard enough. They also had to worry about how supplies were now going to reach them and how, ultimately, they would get home while the Space Shuttle fleet was grounded.
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If the book is as entertaining as this Quirks and Quarks interview with author Chris Jones, it’s worth checking out.
mp3 (8.3 megs)
I was fishing a few miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral when STS-107 launched.
It’s painful…
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=662ab6d695
Ilan Ramon was one of the fighter pilots that wasted Saddam’s nuclear reactor…
Holy crow, you listen to CBC radio?
Rawlco was featuring a “mens health” infomercial. Ordinarily, that’s still preferable to CBC, but in this case, the doctor “interview” was a rerun.
Holy crow, you listen to CBC radio?
It’s so bad it’s addictive:
http://no-libs.com/?p=1670
So much for those old Soviet claims about being opposed to the weaponization of space .
“Ordinarily, that’s still preferable to CBC, but in this case, the doctor “interview” was a rerun.”
My, my, such contortions 🙂 It’s not a crime to listen to the best radio network in the country. Rawlco’s not all bad either. It’s a little sad though how often the Rawlco hosts resort to badmouthing the CBC, and how many people at SDA buy the bogus argument that somehow Canada would be better off without the balance and services it provides.
Actually, Saskboy – that was the truth.
It’s not a crime to listen to the best radio network in the country.
It was before Sirius was bought off by the CBC, like Canadian taxpayers do…
p.s Kate, get yourself Sirius. Damn! It’s got all the political talk radio any Conservative could ever want.
I don’t doubt there was an annoying infomercial on Rawlco, I was just giving you the gears to being informed by the evil empire of CBC, ha.