[FPSPACE] Soyuz TMA-11 landing

[Jim Oberg]

These pictures were after the first helicopter arrived.

Don't forget, the Kazakh-in-charge had to send his grandson
back to the town to get a camera.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Jones" <clj at panix.com>
To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Cc: "Jim Oberg" <jeoberg at comcast.net>; "Anatoly Zak" <agzak at optonline.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Soyuz TMA-11 landing


> Jim Oberg wrote:
>> This is an amazing find, Anatoly, thanks! Everybody should look at the 
>> photo gallery.
> [...]
>> Photo gallery: http://www.diapazon.kz/?page=5&nom=45&gallery=21
> [...]
>
> Absolutely, kudos to Anatoly for bringing this to our attention and to
> Novosti Kosmonavtiki's readers for digging it up in the first place.
>
> I don't know how soon after touchdown the pictures were taken, but I'm
> impressed that for an off-target landing, they got chairs and drinks there
> so quickly, and also managed to put "police tape" around the site (I'd be 
> surprised if any of that was in the Soyuz-TMA DM!).
>
> My I-am-not-a-doctor-but-I'm-going-to-play-one-on-the-Internet eye says 
> that
> Malenchenko came through the landing best, followed by Whitson, and then 
> Yi.
> But even if the care they received was by untrained bystanders, it looks 
> to
> me to be pretty good, keeping them seated (or lying flat in the case of 
> Yi,
> who we now know suffered an injured back) and giving them fluids.
>