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Wednesday, October, 29 2003
Soyuz space capsule lands
By Mara D. Bellaby
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — A
Russian space capsule delivered
an American, a Russian and
Spaniard home Tuesday from
the International Space Station,
depositing them safely in
Kazakhstan and earning a place
in the history books as the first
Russian spacecraft to both
launch and land an American
astronaut.
The bell-shaped Soyuz
thumped down beneath a para
chute at 5:40 a.m. Moscow time
near Arkalyk in north-central
Kazakhstan. Its passengers,
American Ed Lu, Russian Yuri
Malenchenko and Spaniard Pedro
Duque, emerged smiling after
their 3 1/2-hour descent to Earth.
“It is great to be back home,”
said Lu, after Russian workers
lifted him from the capsule.
Lu had planned to ride to the
space station onboard the U.S.
shuttle Atlantis until the disinte
gration of the space shuttle
Columbia in February put the
American manned spaceflight
program on hold. Since then the
smaller, non-reusable Soyuz
crafts have become the linchpin
of the space station program.
Lu and Malenchenko blasted
off in the same Soyuz capsule
last April for a nearly six-month
stay in space, while Duque
arrived eight days ago along
with a U.S.-Russian crew.
In May, the first time
American astronauts returned on
the Soyuz, a computer malfunc
tion sent the crew on a dive so
steep the astronauts’ tongues
rolled back in their mouths.
This time, everything went
mostly as planned.
“We were very fortunate. It
was as smooth a landing as
could have been hoped for,” said
Gen. Vladimir Popov, who
heads the team responsible for
Russia’s space search and rescue
operations.
The operation was marred
when one of the space capsule
occupant pushed a button during
the. upfilocking, which caused the
space station to rotate 25 degrees,
and required a large amount of
fuel to correct the alignment,
Russian media reported.
SPACE STATION
Soyuz returns home
A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American,
a Russian and a Spaniard, returned home
from the International Space Station on Tuesday.
The crew landed smoothly and on target
in Kazakhstan.
Time remaining
until touchdown
Three hours, 20 minutes.
Hooks on the station are opened and the
Soyuz separates from the station
” * °AstanaV 0 200 mi
KAZAKHSTAN
0 200 km
Three hours, 17 minutes.
A short separation burn pushes the
Soyuz about 66 feet from the station.
Two hours, 57 minutes
The module carrying the men separates
from the unoccupied orbital module, which
bums up upon re-entry into the atmosphere.
Two hours, 29 minutes
When the Soyuz is about 12 miles away from
the station, the engines fire for a deorbit bum.
23 minutes
Soyuz reaches the entry interface.
13 minutes
Two pilot parachutes are deployed and the
drogue chute slows the spacecraft’s descent
from 514 mph to 179 mph. Another parachute
is then released, slowing the Soyuz to a
descent rate of 16 mph and giving it the proper
angle to descend and expel extra heat.
Two seconds
Engines fire to slow the spacecraft’s descent rate
from 16 mph to 3 mph at touchdown.
Touchdown
The Soyuz landed near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.
SOURCE: NASA
Russian engineers had said
there was only a slim chance
that this crew would suffer from
the same computer malfunction
that affected the previous flight,
but officials took no chances and
altered the usual search opera
tion to cover more ground.
NASA, still getting used to
its astronauts landing on foreign
ground, also requested a med
ically equipped U.S. Air Force
C-17 to stand by in Astana.
Additionally, this Soyuz was
equipped with satellite phones and
a global positioning satellite sys
tem — courtesy of NASA — so if
the crew had landed off-course
AP
and communications systems
were damaged as happened in
May, they would still have been
able to phone in their location.
The three-man crew arrived
late Tuesday in Moscow, where
Malenchenko’s new bride,
Texas resident Ekaterina
Dmitriev, Lu’s fiance and
Duque’s family awaited them.
Malenchenko became the first
person to marry in space, hold
ing a wedding by proxy.
Associated Press writer
Vladimir Isachenkov contributed
to this report from Mission
Control outside Moscow.
Sony’s £ big bang’ overhaul starts with job cuts
By Yuri Kageyama
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO — Sony Corp., its consumer electron
ics sheen dulled by cheaper competition, is strug
gling to bounce back with a corporate retooling
that will slash 20,000 jobs, or about 13 percent of
its global work force.
Sony said the job cuts would occur over the
next three years and include 7,000 workers in
Japan. It gave no further regional breakdowns or
other details. Sony employs some 161,100 people
worldwide.
The company’s plan is to trim costs while trying
to exploit Sony’s traditional strengths in entertain
ment, electronics and video games — particularly
with new networked and wireless consumer devices.
“It may appear as though Sony is being sucked
into a black hole,” Sony executive deputy presi
dent Ken Kutaragi said. “But we hope to create a
’Big Bang’ that will lead to new business.”
As part of the job cuts, Sony said it would inte
grate overlapping administrative and corporate
jobs, such as by relocating mainly to the West Coast
electronics and marketing operations currently
divided between both U.S. coasts. The company has
about 22,000 employees in the United States.
Rick Clancy, a spokesman for U.S.-based Sony
Electronics Inc., said moving most of Sony’s East
Coast operations to the West Coast may result in a
“few hundred” layoffs but that the actual number
of cuts remain unclear.
Credit Lyonnais Securities analyst Kun Soo
Lee said the job cuts were bigger than expected
and signal that Japanese workers, traditionally
accustomed to lifetime employment, weren’t
going to be protected.
“Sony made it clear that it will trim unneces
sary parts of its operations to survive,” Lee said.
One element of the new strategy focuses on
hardware, including the computer chips, for a net
worked home where electronics, video games,
music and video merge in products including flat-
panel TVs, DVD recorders and home servers.
Another highlight of Tuesday’s announcement
was an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co.
of South Korea to set up a $2 billion joint venture
to develop next-generation liquid crystal display
panels for flat TVs.
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