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akriti12_ t1_j5tznqe wrote

How did they die and what happened to their bodies?

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testingtestingtestin t1_j5v6wz9 wrote

Whoever wrote that article needs to find a new job. It reads like a 14 year old was given a space essay for school.

Edit: from the downvote, and looking at their history, I’m gonna assume OP wrote the article. Sorry for upsetting you, but I do stand by my original comment - the writing in the article is very poor.

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Merky600 t1_j5w3i5s wrote

IIRC There was a valve they could have closed to stop the depressurization. Catch was, it needed to be turned a large number of times to close. Perhaps they attempted it. Took long time to shut. More time than they had.

Edit: Crap. I was wrong and it was worse than I thought.

"Based on examination of the hatch and valves, officials determined that air leaked from one of the two ventilation/equalization valves, located behind the control panel.•Although the crew would have been immediately aware of the leak, they had to determine its source, so they switched off radio transmitters to isolate the leak’s noise. Crew commander Dobrovolskiy’s body was found apparently attempting to cover the control panel with a checklist.•The crew could not close the valve because it lacked a manual closure mechanism and was inaccessible.•Within 40 seconds of depressurization during descent, the crew suffocated."

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testingtestingtestin t1_j5whsn2 wrote

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No, it isn’t. It’s full of grammatical errors and spurious punctuation, has no flow and I’d already read several sentences that either didn’t make sense or required multiple readings to grasp the point the author was making before I gave up.

This sentence is a good example of one that wouldn’t be accepted in a high school essay:

>Whilst the boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and space is of course a blurred one, much of the international scientific community agrees on the 100km Kármán line, but, as it is with many ‘international’ measurements, does not apply to the US.

I’m honestly amazed it doesn’t start with “the dictionary defines space as….”

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TangoZuluMike t1_j5yq8st wrote

Interesting language. They died though, passing away is a bit off as far as language goes.

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