Capsule carrying first SKorean astronaut lands off target

AP via Yahoo ^ | April 19. 2008 | MIKE ECKEL

[Onelifetogive]

It is a reference to “g forces"...

It is a reference to "g-forces" by a journalist who couldn't calculate a simple static of dynamic equation if his life depended on it.

[toddlintown]

“I am pretty sure there is no such thing. Gravity is basically constant”

Gravity sucks.
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Gravity brings you down...

[JRandomFreeper]

WTF? They all lived. What are the complaints about? 300 klicks off target? And a chopper picked them up? Get up and hump hard for 3 days.

Not that I could do it anymore....

/johnny/

[JRandomFreeper]

You are fined for using the word "journalist" and "math" in the same sentence.

/johnny

[BenLurkin]

when a majority (of the crew) is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behavior or something else occurs

Talk about diggin himself in deeper!

[Polybius]

.... touched down 260 miles off target ..... in a bone-jarring descent .... the crew — South Korean bioengineer Yi So-yeon, American astronaut Peggy Whitson and Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko ..... Officials said the craft followed a so-called "ballistic re-entry" — a very steep trajectory that subjects the crew to extreme physical force.

Let me guess. The woman astronaut was driving and the men refused to ask for directions.

[JRandomFreeper]

400+ klicks. Math is hard.

/johnny/

[mirkwood]

“It sure does!

When you consider all the misery gravity has been directly responsible for; embarrassing pratfalls, avalanches, drooping body parts, building collapses, suicide by jumpers, collisions with asteroids, and that time at the wedding when my aunt Marge’s bloomers draped themselves over her shoes as the photo of the ensemble was taken. “

Well Said!

[JRandomFreeper]

Harumph.... My regards to Marge.

Best wishes.

/johnny/

[LiberConservative]

“Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.”

[dr_lew]

I would suppose 3 1/2 hours was the time from undocking to landing.

[dr_lew]

Of course they mean g-forces. I assume the “ballistic reentry” means it was steep, so that they encountered dense atmosphere at higher speed than normal.

Note that the identification of Newtonian “fictitious forces” with gravity is justified by Einstein's Principle of Equivalence, according to which gravity itself is likewise a fictitious force felt in a frame of reference accelerating wrt the “locally Lorentz”, or free-fall frame of reference.

[Bender2]

Re: A Russian capsule carrying South Korea's first astronaut touched down 260 miles off target in northern Kazakhstan on Saturday after hurtling through the atmosphere in a bone-jarring descent from the international space station.

This just in! Kent Brockman reporting. Jose... have you passed the Russian capsule yet?

No, I haven't even... swallowed it yet!

Film... at 11!

[ccmay]

the three had been subjected to severe gravitational forces during the re-entry.

That will make quite a story for the grandchildren.

-ccm

[Truth29]

In addition to the additional G forces caused by the steeper than planned reentry, I wonder how well the NASA and ISS programs for physical fitness prepare the astronauts for a “severe” reentry. Peggy Whitson has been on the ISS for 6 months. There is a charted loss of bone mass for each month in weightlessness, for instance.

[Levante]

“Did the pilot train at Delta?”

Nah, probably Aeroflot.

[Levante]

“Koreans are bad drivers. Just ask anyone in California! :0)”

You’ve obviously never driven with a 20-year old Sicilian girl in downtown Messina during “rush hour”...

Yes, SHE was driving... ;)

[Levante]

“Koreans are bad drivers. Just ask anyone in California! :0)”

You’ve obviously never driven with a 20-year old Sicilian girl in downtown Messina during “rush hour”...

Yes, SHE was driving... ;)