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How many of you on this board are old enough to remember the disastrous
Soyuz III mission in 1971? A little background: In March 1971, I think, the
crew of Soyuz III, the first Soviet capsule to have a three-man crew, left the
Salyut I space station. Their pressure suits were too big to fit through the
hatch, so they left them behind. Upon reentry, they suffered from the bends.
(If you've been scuba diving, you'll know what it is. No need for me to explain it), and when their capsule landed, and the ground crew opened the hatch so they could get out, they were dead. What if the Soyuz III crew hadn't left their pressure suits behind and survived?
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