Scott Kelly Return From Space

[ARFlyer]

Anyone watching the live feed on Scott Kelly's return from space? Their currently in the deorbiting burn with a landing in a little under an hour from now.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

 

[simtech]

I wasn't, but I am now. thanks for the link!

 

[ARFlyer]

Trying to figure out why Russia is stating delta V in decimal form. "Reentry Burn delta V .45, delta V now .56" Only thing I can think is that it's a easy to understand scale of how much velocity is left to be loss.

E.g. 1.0 is the needed loss in velocity to deorbit. Intstead of "32 m/s left, 31.8 m/s left"

 

[Scrabo]

Did he leave the gorilla suit on the station ?

 

[dans2992]

It must suck to start feeling gravity again after being weightless for a year!

 

[ARFlyer]

It must suck to start feeling gravity again after being weightless for a year!

During an interview a former astronaut said the most common thing is dropping things by accident. He said you get so use to just letting go of that cup and it floating that you will still do it on the ground for a few weeks.