NASA astronaut Don Pettit is simply a few days away from returning to Earth on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft after a seven-month keep on the Worldwide House Station, making it the proper time to revisit his astonishing account of his first Soyuz homecoming in 2003.
Within the article, Pettit describes in vivid element the extraordinary expertise of hurtling by means of Earth’s environment at 5 miles a second, and the way malfunctions with Soyuz led to the flight residence turning into a type of check touchdown for a future crewed mission to Mars.
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