From: Gina Miller (nanogirl@halcyon.com)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 15:48:17 MST
Arti wrote:
> Also, doesn't the shuttle have some sort of emergency eject system? Of
> course, if they were at too high an altitude, or the explosion was too
sudden
> for a crew reaction, this wouldn't be useable in any event, but I would
think
> that the designers would have tried to account for such occurrances. Maybe
> making the entire crew cabin explosion-proof, sealed off from the rest of
the
> craft during liftoff and reentry, and maybe a redundant chute/airbag kind
of
> system? Does anyone have info on this?
If they would have ejected they would have been going the speed of the
shuttle,
they would have fallen too fast for survival.
Gina Miller
www.nanoindustries.com
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