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[–] 26 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I listened to Chris Hadfield describe coming home in a Soyuz capsul and it rolling a few times after hitting the ground. Land works but water sounds more comfortable, as long as you don't get sea sick on top of it all.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    When they were covering the Artemis landing, they mentioned that just returning to earth from weightlessness makes them pretty nauseous, so they get motion sickness meds before landing anyway. Ibuprofen or anti inflammatory meds too, since 1 G is hard on joints after a few days without it.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Water isn't like in the video games. It's still a hard landing that you wouldn't survive if you were going too fast. There's just much more margin for error trying to hit the ocean vs. a plot of land.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    My father was a fighter pilot. He explained that at a sufficiently sharp angle, hitting water was like hitting concrete.

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