Thursday, November 23, 2006

Russia represents: golf in open space

Russian cosmonaut is prepared for the impact on ball for the golf during the space walk from the international space station (S).

Flight engineer Mikhail Turin will strike by club for the golf the light ball from the area, established above the attachment point S.

As the BBC reports, for this impact the Canadian producer of clubs for the golf will pay to Turin. The sum of contract, however, is not revealed.

The American space agency OF NASA - NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION put aside this experiment several months contract, until experts on the safety studied the possible flight trajectories of ball in order to ascertain that it will not return to S.

I play into the hockey and, how I understand, it is very similar to the golf, said Turin, intensively training before the critical impact, which was outlined for the medium.

The flight engineer said in response to a question about the safety: there are no doubts whatever, that this is safe.

Kholli Of raydings, crew S approach this experiment extremely seriously and much it is trained according to the director of the flights OF NASA - NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION.

there are absolutely no fears that the ball can return to the space station, she said.

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