ISS crew endures commmunication blackout during re-entry

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three of the International Space Station's six crew members suffered an unexpected communications blackout just before plunging back into Earth's atmosphere, completing a nail-biting descent in radio silence with repeated calls from flight controllers near Moscow going unanswered.

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That must be like the old days when they re-entered the atmosphere before radio was invented.

"Release the carrier pigeon!"