According to a report on Tuesday, A faulty control cable caused the glitch that subjected two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler to a rough trip back to Earth. This caused the Soyuz capsule to come down at a steeper-than-usual descent trajectory. That increase upped the crew "to 8.5 times the force of gravity instead of the usual four times the force of gravity."
"It felt like an elephant pressing on my chest, but the Russians trained us very
well to handle a rough descent," Sheikh Muszaphar said shortly after the
landing.
Medical tests revealed that "the three cosmonauts were not injured during the descent, but it took them slightly longer than usual to adapt to Earth conditions."
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This is simply a small glitch in Russia's space program, but it demostrates the training that the comonauts recieve as well as the fact that every mission retains the possibility of errors. Hopefully, this will be the only problem that RKK Energiya, the top spacecraft manufacturer in Russiam will encounter.
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