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plopping down and nobody could contact the thing. as you know, jon in august we lost the soyuz booster on a launch failure. our way up was compromised. now we have suspicions with the return capsule. it s been very reliable and flying since the 60s. this communications black out raised worries at nasa mission control about the loss of the columbia. where we couldn t call the crew until we found out the pays capsule was lost. whenever you can t raise the crew it s very nerve-racking on the ground. in this case the crew landed safely. jon: right, the crew did land safely. i grew up in the glory days of the american space program where you could name every astronaut, they were our heroes. to see these guys sitting in what look like lawn chairs out

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