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Nice clean take off, none of that horrible poisonous dense cloud you get from the Shuttle's SRBs.
In fact the only trail was a faint brown one - no doubt from the kerosene fuel being burned (just like a Saturn V).
It was nice to see the brief (about 5 seconds) vapour trail - something you don't see with the Shuttle because it is smothered by the SRB exhaust smoke.
In fact the only trail was a faint brown one - no doubt from the kerosene fuel being burned (just like a Saturn V).
It was nice to see the brief (about 5 seconds) vapour trail - something you don't see with the Shuttle because it is smothered by the SRB exhaust smoke.
PD9 said:
Only 2 astronauts?
Three. The Soyuz is small and cramped. The crew module is much smaller than an Apollo capsule.
Crew details from Spaceflightnow.com below:
Edited by PD9 on Wednesday 27th May 11:39
Thirsk, Romanenko and De Winne. Credit: Energia
The Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft, mounted atop the same launch pad used by Yuri Gagarin at the dawn of the space age, is scheduled for takeoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:34:49 a.m. EDT.
Soyuz commander Roman Romanenko, son of a Russian cosmonaut, will be strapped into the center seat, flanked by European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, a shuttle veteran.
Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 27th May 11:45
Eric Mc said:
I like the hi-tech solution to the fact that they can't reach the instrument panel from their couches - a long stick 
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Maybe it floated out of reach? They're well prepared though eh?.Could you reach your wireless keyboard if it floated up to the ceiling and you were strapped into your seat?
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