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At min. 6:10 ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli describes Soyuz detachment from the space station and how that felt, then later describes the explosive bolts (10:30) that separate the Soyuz parts as being like someone outside is smashing the capsule with a sledge hammer, "...really interesting, actually." Okay, interesting. So we're in this eggshell out here in a vacuum and we could explode and get the bends and our blood boil and our temperature drop to 200 below zero, and that's "really interesting, actually."
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It takes a special breed to be an astronaut.
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At min. 8:10 they describe the braking as Soyuz begins its descent through the atmosphere.
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At 8:30, ESA astronaut Frank De Winne explains what happens if they don't burn enough ("...we can actually skip off the atmosphere ... and that of course would not be successful re-entry") -- More like "Oh sh*t, WE'RE DOOMED!" They would be sent back out above the atmosphere in a completely random trajectory toward some unchosen destination which could be just about anywhere on earth, even the Arctic Ocean, but with possibly insufficient fuel to properly control a second attempt. But De Winne calmly omits that part and goes on to talk about the other possibility, what happens if they burn too much.
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At 8:43, "On the other hand if we burn too much and we come in too steep, then we would have too much speed when we are in the lower parts of the atmosphere. The heat which is normally around two-three thousand degrees Celsius (!?), would be much higher and we have risk of burning up." At that point, they are TOAST. Or as a hospital worker I know says, crispy critters. "So also therefore, it is very critical that we do the correct de-orbit burn, and that we really fix this around 120 meters per second."
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Two or three thousand degrees Celsius is 3,600 to 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit. And that's "normal?" That's hot enough to melt titanium. Maybe there's a mistake there.