Welcome back to Planet Earth,Dr SMS

First,let me welcome back to mother earth all the passengers of Soyuz,especially my fellow Malaysian Dr Syed Muzaphar.Alhamdulilah to Allah Azzawajalal.

I seldom watch TV but yesterday late afternoon was an exception for me to sit in front of TV from 6:30pm until almost 7pm.Honestly, I was very anxious to know whether the capsule has landed or not.In my little mind, it is much easier to have a lift off but the return journey is the most worrying.What a great relief to hear later that the capsule has landed even though it is a few hundred kilometres away.To me, as long as it returns to our mother earth,I am happy and would be grateful.During the live broadcast, I was made to understand that the capsule failure to land at the designated location was due to computer glitch.

While watching the live show,my 18 year-old son asked me how do they make sure that Soyuz will return to Russia because both objects are moving at the same time.I had to use my little knowledge about trajectory and relative velocities that I learnt when I was doing Applied Maths and Physics during my pre-U days.I hope he understood,at least the concept.It is not easy to be a father nowadays especially when one day my son came home and asked me to explain the meaning of complex conjugate!(some complex numbers thingy)

May I ask the more knowledgeable readers of my blog to shed some light on the 8.5g that the astronauts had to undergo during the earth entry.Do we feel 8.5 times heavier?Can someone tell me what the traveling speed of the capsule on the return journey and what is the speed prior just to landing.

PS: Latest news from The Star.

Comments

[MBA]

entri ada kat sini: http://sebolku.blogspot.com/2007/10/daya-graviti-sudah-tidak-mempunyai.html

[Hasbullah Pit]

sementara Robert gibson ada di Malaysia, cuba cari jadual dia, mana tau anak adib boleh attend talk dia.

cuba contact mimos.

anyway, saya pun lom jumpa jadual dia

[Adib]

Thanks Hasbullah.