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From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 10-11-2014 08:20 PM               

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Is it possible to undock the crewed Soyuz from the International Space Station (ISS)?

For some bizarre reason, I had this thought of Russian cosmonauts being forced from ISS into one of the Soyuz, the hatch being shut on both the spacecraft and ISS from the station side, then someone doing an undocking from ISS.

I assume it could be done — however unlikely — because wouldn't ISS have the ability to manually undock a visiting vehicle in case the ground control command to do so doesn't work?