Comments on: Columbia’s final moments? http://soreeyes.org/archive/2003/02/25/columbias-final-moments/ Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:55:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Martin Dawson http://soreeyes.org/archive/2003/02/25/columbias-final-moments/#comment-22897 Martin Dawson Wed, 07 Apr 2004 22:28:37 +0000 http://soreeyes.org/archive/2003/02/25/columbias-final-moments/#comment-22897 If any one really needs a answer to "Columbia's" crew's final moments, search out Boris Volynov and his dramatic re-entry in Soyuz 5 in 1969 January. See..."Soyuz - A Universal Spacecraft", Rex Hall and David Shayler, 2003-4, Springer-Praxis, pg.154. p.s. Don't dwell on awful things... ... the crew would not want it. If any one really needs a answer to “Columbia’s” crew’s final moments, search out Boris Volynov and his dramatic re-entry in Soyuz 5 in 1969 January.
See…”Soyuz - A Universal Spacecraft”, Rex Hall and David Shayler, 2003-4, Springer-Praxis, pg.154.

p.s. Don’t dwell on awful things…
… the crew would not want it.

]]> By: Ray http://soreeyes.org/archive/2003/02/25/columbias-final-moments/#comment-22896 Ray Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:54:57 +0000 http://soreeyes.org/archive/2003/02/25/columbias-final-moments/#comment-22896 I would say there are far worse ways to die than a minute or two's panic, then obliteration - even assuming that astronauts panic. There are many Q&As online - try a Google on [astronaut "were you afraid"] - where astronauts say they were not frightened by serious problem situations: they are a) highly trained, and b) selected by personality type. We're judging the situation by our own mindsets. forgetting that astronauts are chosen for their coolness under (or even, as test pilots, enthusiasm for) 'white knuckle' situations. I would say there are far worse ways to die than a minute or two’s panic, then obliteration - even assuming that astronauts panic. There are many Q&As online - try a Google on [astronaut "were you afraid"] - where astronauts say they were not frightened by serious problem situations: they are a) highly trained, and b) selected by personality type. We’re judging the situation by our own mindsets. forgetting that astronauts are chosen for their coolness under (or even, as test pilots, enthusiasm for) ‘white knuckle’ situations.

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