Space age chauvanism

lostexpectation

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=64705&sid=18584254&con_type=3

so the soyuz capsule returns to earth with 2 women and i man including south korea first female astronaut 'piloting' and missed its presumed target by 260 miles so the spokeperson for the russia space agency basically says 'women eh?' :eek::rolleyes:

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=64705&sid=18584254&con_type=3

look at the mess they made of Kazakhstan

Perminov, asked about the two women, referred to a naval superstition that having women aboard a ship was bad luck. "You know in Russia, there are certain bad omens about this sort of thing, but thank God that everything worked out successfully," he said. "In the future, we will work somehow to ensure that the number of women will not surpass" the number of men.

He added: "This isn't discrimination. I'm just saying that when a majority [of the crew] is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behavior or something else occurs."

lostexpectation

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/?jp=mhojidideyql&c=world

it seems it was no joking matter they came in too steep and the wrong way around!

The crew of the Soyuz capsule that landed in Kazakhstan hundreds of miles off-target after an unexpectedly severe descent was in serious danger, a Russian news agency reported.

Interfax quoted an unidentified space official as saying that the capsule entered the atmosphere improperly, with the hatch-first, instead of with its heat shields leading the way. As a result, the hatch suffered significant damage.




Russia's three-segment Soyuz spacecraft are made up of an engine-carrying propulsion module, central crew capsule with a bottom-mounted heat shield and an orbital module. The orbital and propulsion modules are designed to be discarded during reentry, leaving the bell-shaped crew capsule to land under parachutes and retrorockets on the Kazakh steppe.

Citing an unmanned space official close to Russia's post-landing investigation, Interfax reported that the propulsion module did not jettison properly, preventing the Soyuz's heat shield from bearing the brunt of the fiery temperatures during reentry.

the spacecraft's hatch side was facing forward and suffered some heat damage before the propulsion module separated for good and allowed a successful landing, the news agency reported.

CiDeRmAn

The women wanted to stop to ask for directions to the landing site but the man refused fearing it would make him look weak and girly, and promising he read the map properly before they set out.