Despite the fact that space is a purely scientific field of research and jewelry work, the universe of astronauts is built on superstition.
The entire cosmodrome is riddled with symbolism and taboos.
And, as it was already clear from the broadcast of the launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft crew, everything was based on strict calculation and … signs.
Their whole bible.
Rockets don't fly on Mondays.
Before departure, you must watch the comedy “White Sun of the Desert”.
The launch is never scheduled for October 24 (the day of mourning when the R-16 ICBM carrier rocket exploded in 1960).
Men shave off their mustaches.
Before departure, be sure to plant a tree.
The rocket is taken out at 7 in the morning, one of the leaders of the design bureau, who is responsible for preparation, is walking along the rails in front of it.
The cosmonauts go to the take-off site to the song “Grass by the House” – there are horseshoes on the bus.
When going up the elevator, the astronauts turn and wave their hand, like Gagarin, but you cannot answer them!
On board the ISS, they are greeted with bread and salt.
In a word, a black cat on the road with a mirror upon its return will seem like innocent, playful rituals.
It is believed that such uncontrollable and dark matter as space can be influenced by every wrong gesture.
And on October 5, 2021, this was again confirmed.
The wife of Klim Shipenko, actress Sofya Karpunina, appeared at Baikonur in a rather mournful guise. A gray coat and a black shawl usually worn at funerals. This embarrassed many participants in the launch, but no one dared to reprimand the girl. Moreover, she was with children: the director's one-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter Katalina.
And if the takeoff was flawless and regular (even the foreign press praises it), then the docking is problematic. Astronaut Shkaplerov, almost like Matthew McConaughey's character in Interstellar on the Endurance, had to switch over to manual control without a flight engineer during docking with the ISS, because both docking systems failed.
This could be seen on the air of the First Channel.
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This is how the negotiations with the Earth sounded:
– Anton, if at a distance of 40 meters and the second one falls away, our team – you switch to manual saving, – reported from the MCC after an unsuccessful docking attempt.
– In the RODK, do I understand correctly? – specified Shkaplerov.
– Yes Yes Yes. Let's.
– And more information: 10 minutes remain until the end of the communication zone. At 15-20 the end of the communication zone.
We decipher: after the failure of TWO docking systems, Shkaplerov, who has an actress and director frightened by an incomprehensible situation on board, is given ten (!) Minutes to connect to the ISS, after which the connection will simply be cut off. The equanimity of the crew commander at this moment, contrary to human physiology, was simply off scale: he spoke as if he was on the beach with a glass of cocktail. He answered calmly and even melancholy. And after 10 minutes I did everything perfectly. Essentially saved the entire mission.
– The passive at the station, the receiving antenna: two half-sets are in passive there, two half-sets are in the asset, – explained the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. – The asset is on the ship, the liability is on the station. So they began to malfunction, began to blink among themselves, decided not to risk it and switch to manual control, nothing special.
– It happens, – confirmed the hero of the USSR and Russia Sergei Krikalev, executive director for manned space programs of Roskosmos. – Two systems of automatic docking, one of which failed, then there was an automatic transition to the second. It also did not work [normally]: brought it closer, but the automatic docking did not work. We have a reserve – manual control. So it's okay. All astronauts are trained to do this operation. The situation was not emergency, but it was the third reserve for automatic mode.
3.5 hours after the launch, at 15-22 Moscow time, Soyuz MS-19 with the Vyzov project crew docked to the Rassvet Small Research Module of the ISS Russian Segment. At 17.05 the hatches were opened. After that, the crew consisting of cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild went to the ISS.
Of course, it's not just the black shawl. On the day of the historic launch, rays of dark energy continue to be sent from Earth by experts in space and budgets of Roscosmos of all stripes, including the inimitable clown Yuri Loza.
– On the First, a flight into space of several actors (in fact, one actress – Auth.) Is being promoted, who do not have the slightest idea about astronautics, – Yuri wrote on Facebook, actively defending the theory of a flat earth. – Earlier, media characters clumsily danced with the stars of the parquet, appeared on the stages of academic theaters, hung out in the circus arena and cut circles on the ice with real skaters. I'm even afraid to imagine what professions will be discredited in the future, and where the promoted amateurs will be invited. It is clear that they themselves, for the sake of PR, are ready to put out fires and cut out appendixes on camera, but it would be better if those who really understand these issues would do this.
