{"id":195388,"date":"2008-07-12T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/12\/explosive-bolt-pulled-from-soyuz-docked-to-space-station\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T11:22:00","slug":"explosive-bolt-pulled-from-soyuz-docked-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/12\/explosive-bolt-pulled-from-soyuz-docked-to-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive Bolt Pulled from Soyuz Docked to Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Soyuz has had some issues with separation of the crew and re-entry modules, and so the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story.jsp?id=news\/Pyro070908.xml&amp;headline=Crew%20To%20Pull%20Pyro%20Bolt%20On%20Soyuz%20%20%20%20&amp;channel=space\">has pulled the explosive bolt which is believed to have been responsible for the past two &#8220;anomalies&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The failure of the joint to decouple smoothly led to two ballistic re-entries with much higher G-forces on re-entry and an off target landing.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say bringing an explosive device in for inspection, it has about the same boom as an M-80, is a non-trivial operation, and they have an explosion resistant container to transport it in once removed.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I have to figure that the &#8220;pucker factor&#8221; is pretty high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soyuz has had some issues with separation of the crew and re-entry modules, and so the has pulled the explosive bolt which is believed to have been responsible for the past two &#8220;anomalies&#8221;. The failure of the joint to decouple smoothly led to two ballistic re-entries with much higher G-forces on re-entry and an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}