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| Dragon Astronaut exiting capsule on August 2, 2020 |
It was a great day in manned space flight to see astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley slash down in the Gulf of Mexico on the afternoon of August 2. The first time in 45 years that such an event had occurred. The astronauts had launched from the cape on May 30 and had spent 63 days on the International Space Station.
In my article The Right Stuff Never Stumbles, I document how the Russian cosmonauts and space tourists could not remove themselves from the capsule upon landing or walking. They had to carted off the field due to the effects of being in zero (micro) gravity. Meanwhile, the Gemini and Apollo astronauts had no issues with this at all, regarding any of their flights and landings. One of the longest missions, Gemini 7 spent 14 days in space with astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman. They could extract themselves from their capsules and freely walk about minutes after landing.
So I watched with great interest to see if the Behnken and Hurley would leave the capsule on their own or be helped out. The rescue personnel helped both of the astronauts out of the dragon and sent them off on stretchers. I was delighted to see this. It proves the Dragon trip to the ISS actually happened. In the era of Deep Fakes it is nice to see some reality for a change.
But the success of the SpaceX/NASA Dragon does point to the phoniness of the of the NASA missions of the 1960’s and 70’s. As stated in the Right Stuff article, the space tourists and Russian Cosmonauts could not walk upon landing due to the physical effects on the body in a weightless environment. Micro gravity, meaning no gravity, is very harmful to the human body and gives one a since of being tremendously heavy upon return. This is never experienced by any astronaut from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. You can witness them getting out of the capsule on their own with no help and then freely walking around afterward.
So Sunday’s splashdown points to more evidence of NASA Cold War myth making.
The Right Stuff Never Stumbles
https://outwardtrends.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-right-stuff-never-stumbles.html
Anousheh Ansari’s Blog - Engineer and space tourist describes the effects of after space recovery.
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/2006/10/05/second-birth/
