Soyuz Landing

Houston We Have a Podcast

Katie Konans

Science

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hear a behind-the-scenes narrative into the operational intricacies of a 2018 Soyuz landing and the choreography of personnel, vehicles, and more when recovering the astronauts and cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station. HWHAP Episode 140.

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0:00.0	December 15th, 2018.
0:06.0	It's early in the morning on a Saturday, pretty chilly, but it's Houston, so it's manageable,
0:10.7	especially compared to where we're going.
0:13.7	I'm boarding NASA's Gulf Stream G3 aircraft.
0:16.8	On board is a fairly small group.
0:19.1	Bill Arrenstrom and Chris Trigger-Condon will alternate as pilot for each of the first two legs, Adam Klein as co-pilot
0:26.6	and Allison Hickey keeping them in check.
0:29.1	Angel Vasquez is the mechanic.
0:30.9	He'll be joining us for the duration of the trip, making sure the plane is ready to fly at all times.
0:35.8	As for the passengers, there's Kenny Todd, deputy manager in the space station program.
0:40.9	Kate Rubens, astronaut, among other things.
0:44.8	Shannon Moynihan, medical doctor, and myself,
0:48.0	Gary Jordan, a public affairs officer who
0:50.1	feels very much out of place.
0:53.2	We're taking off from Ellington Field, a small airport southeast of downtown Houston.
0:58.4	It's mostly a military airport, it has some civilian traffic, but NASA also has a decent presence there.
1:04.0	It's the same airport where astronauts take off in T38 training jets to keep up their flight certifications.
1:10.9	We're about to head out to Karyganda, one of the largest cities in the Asian
1:14.7	country of Kazakhstan halfway around the world. From here we'll be meeting up with a
1:19.1	few dozen other people from many nations to conduct one of the most impressive
1:23.1	logistic performances I've ever encountered, the recovery of a Soyuz
1:27.0	capsule carrying two astronauts and a cosmonaut who are coming back from a
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