So What Happens to Astronauts if the World is Taken Over By Zombies?

[onodera]

Originally posted by Starchild
This, like most zombie related scenarios, is covered (to an extent) in World War Z.

They nearly starve, then they starve.

QFMFGDAKT
World War Z is the best book about zombies.

[Starchild]

Originally posted by onodera

QFMFGDAKT
World War Z is the best book about zombies.

JRDJFGDMSMFXCFG! I know, isnt it!

[Starchild]

Originally posted by SlowwHand


Kind of getting in some practice for the actual event?

When I'm bored, I go round my city looking for good places to wait out the zombie attacks. Alas, a city built for holiday makers and drunken royalty lacks strong defensive battlements or ancient stone cathedrals.

[korn469]

A Soyuz space capsule took the first crew to the International Space Station in November 2000. Since that time, at least one Soyuz has always been at the Station, generally to serve as a lifeboat should the crew have to return to Earth unexpectedly. After the Columbia accident in February 2003, the Soyuz TMA became the means of transportation for crewmembers going to or returning from the orbiting laboratory.

The Soyuz spacecraft is launched to the Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket

Once the Soyuz reaches orbit, it spends two days chasing the Station. The crew performs systems checks and keeps in touch with controllers at the Russian Mission Control Center during that time.

Before the final rendezvous phase, the crewmembers put on pressurized suits and then monitor the automated docking sequenc

The rendezvous and docking are both automated, but the Soyuz crew has the capability to manually intervene or execute these operations. Once docking is complete, the crewmembers equalize the air pressure of the Soyuz with the Station before opening the hatches.

At least one Russian Soyuz spacecraft is always docked to the Space Station. In addition, there is usually a Progress supply vehicle docked and sometimes a Space Shuttle as well. The Station is well supplied with docking ports for all three types of vehicles.

Up to three crewmembers can launch and return to Earth from the Station aboard a Soyuz TMA spacecraft. The vehicle lands on the flat steppes of Kazakhstan in central Asia.

A Soyuz trip to the station takes two days from launch to docking, but the return to Earth takes less than 3.5 hours

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/soyuz/index.html

Here's some info about Kazakhstan

Geography
Area: 2.7 million sq. km. (1.05 million sq. mi.); ninth-largest nation in the world; the size of Western Europe.
Major cities: Astana (capital, June 1998), Almaty (former capital), Karaganda, and Shymkent.
Terrain: Extends east to west from the Caspian Sea to the Altay Mountains and north to south from the plains of Western Siberia to the oasis and desert of Central Asia.
Climate: Continental, cold winters and hot summers; arid and semi-arid.
Border lengths: Russia 6,846 km., Uzbekistan 2,203 km., China 1,533 km., Kyrgyzstan 1,051 km., and Turkmenistan 379 km.

People
Nationality: Kazakhstani.
Population (July 2006 est.): 15.2 million--down from 16.2 million in 1989; second most-populated country in Central Asia.
Population growth rate (2006 est.): 0.3%. Population distribution: 56.4% of population lives in urban areas. Twenty-six cities had approximate populations of more than 50,000 in 1999--Astana (capital) 529,000, Almaty (former capital) 1.2 million, Karaganda 440,000, Shymkent 370,000, Taraz 340,000, Ust-Kamenogorsk 310,000, Pavlodar 300,000.
Large scale emigration of ethnic Russians, Germans, and Ukrainians accounts for most of the population decrease since 1989.
Population density: 14.5 people per sq. mi. (U.S. density 2000: 79.6 people per sq. mi.).

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5487.htm

even more info

The western part of the Kazakh Steppe is very sparsely populated, with between two and three people per square kilometer. As one heads east across the plains, the population density increases to between four and seven people per square kilometer. Kazakh people make up the majority of the people living in the area. Russia leases approximately 7,360 square kilometers in the southern region of the steppe for the world's oldest space launch facility, Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Not sure if this shows the space station landing area or not

[Lancer]

I'd dead stick the shuttle onto the salt flats and smear zombies into a long brown salty streak with a wheels up landing. Jumping out I'd then decapitate the undead into the unlimbed and, fighting my way through to Canada I'd find a live girl, preferably, and start a new life. Even the undead wouldn't want to live in Canada when they have Vegas.

It's a plan.