Talk:Soyuz 33

Film or Book Version of Marooned?
I've recently obtained a copy of James Oberg's Red Star in Orbit which describes the aftermath of the failed docking with Salyut 6 as follows:

"Since the inoperative maneuvering engine was also used for returning to Earth, the Soyuz-33 crewmen were in genuine danger of being trapped in space until their air ran out in a few days. In fact, the commander (a veteran of the Apollo-Soyuz project named Rukavishnikov, who spoke fluent English) later admitted to thinking briefly about an American science fiction novel he had once read - Marooned by Martin Caidin - which was about space-station astronauts trapped in orbit by a faulty rocket engine."

'''James Oberg. Red Star in Orbit. Harrap (1981), pg 196. ISBN 0245538097'''

It would appear that there is a discrepancy between this account and the one used to prepare the article. It might be worth further investigation. Graham1973 (talk) 01:56, 18 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I'll double-check my sources to see what they say and we can ammend accordingly. If both, we could say both. Canada Jack (talk) 14:13, 18 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a planGraham1973 (talk) 14:26, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

I fixed the reference - indeed, it was the book, not the film, that Ruk. had thought of, at least according to Newkirk (and Oberg). Good catch. Canada Jack (talk) 23:18, 30 March 2010 (UTC)


 * ThanksGraham1973 (talk) 16:21, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Confusing description of re-entry burn?
How can it be that in one paragraph the burn is described as too long and in the following paragraph as too short? Granted, delta-v can be in any direction, but when we say "greater delta-v, steeper fall" we do introduce a number of assumptions that should not be immediately and silently dropped.Spamhog (talk) 20:55, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I wondered about that too. "the autopilot tried to run them until the proper delta V was achieved, but the cosmonauts issued a manual shutoff command after 213 seconds of burn time." So why didn't the autopilot shut the engine off at 188 seconds? Did the crew override the autopilot? Why? Kendall-K1 (talk) 14:33, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Copyvio
Whole paragraphs have been copied from http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-33.htm. Isn't this a copyright violation? Kendall-K1 (talk) 14:29, 31 August 2018 (UTC)