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From: ins_argr@jhunix.UUCP (Robert G Roberds)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Ejection Seats
Message-ID: <2016@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 17:31:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 17:31:05 1986
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Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr.
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> > ... the shuttle crew seems to be spread on
> > two decks at launch.  An ejection option would require an easy access
> > path from seats on the lower deck, thru the upper deck, and out thru
> > the skin of the craft.
> 
> No, you can eject the lower-deck seats downward.  This is what's done
> on the B-52, which has two decks.  Of course, this means you need ejection
> hatches or blowaway panels or whatever on the underside.
> -- 
> 				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> 				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

One probulum.  The external tank is there.  Assuming the impact didn't
kill them and/or set off an explosion, the aborting astronauts would
quickly find themselves "Medium Cool" in a bath of cryogenic fuels,
with a one-way ticket to nowhere...
-- 


Give me an ocean and some sun-screen lotion.

Bob Roberds@The JohnSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Hopkins University