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The irony is that I just finished reading "Too Far From Home", a book about the astronauts (and a cosmonaut) who were stranded on the ISS when the Columbia self-destructed. The Soyuz TMA-1 was their only ticket home. That one had a ballistic re-entry also, and the g's went to 8.0.
If we're going to keep sending people to the ISS we need some redundancy in the vehicles to get them home.
The irony is that I just finished reading "Too Far From Home", a book about the astronauts (and a cosmonaut) who were stranded on the ISS when the Columbia self-destructed. The Soyuz TMA-1 was their only ticket home. That one had a ballistic re-entry also, and the g's went to 8.0.
If we're going to keep sending people to the ISS we need some redundancy in the vehicles to get them home.
