[FPSPACE] TASS: Commission clears flight of new crew, space tourist to ISS

[David Anderman]

A wild guess is that the flight computer used for the descent may not 
be reliable without air to cool it.

DWA


At 12:02 PM 3/22/2007, Charles, John B. (JSC-SA2) wrote:
>This bit is interesting: "...The spacemen also handled several imaginary
>emergencies, in particular a depressurization of the spacecraft
>warranting a ballistic re-entry."
>
>I did not know that a cabin depressurization invoked a ballistic
>re-entry.  Seems to me that would make the re-entry phase doubly-hard,
>unless they are afraid that the Sokol-portion of the life support system
>is still at sufficient risk that the increased stress of a ballistic
>re-entry is outweighed by a (slightly?) faster (Anybody know how much
>faster?) return to the sensible atmosphere?
>
>John Charles
>Houston, Texas
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