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New Aye
I worked in aerospace around the time of the Challenger accident. The company I worked for built one of the crew escape systems that were retrofitted to the remaining orbiters. The system is only usuable once the orbiter has reentered (and is at 30,000 ft or less IIRC). IOW, it wouldn't have been usable in the Challenger accident, or the Columbia.

[link|http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts_asm.html#crew_mods|http://science.ksc.n...sm.html#crew_mods]
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Steve
New Small world. I worked with the AF guys that tested it
at Edwards AFB. They made a mockup of the hatch and egress pole and put it in a C-141. You're right on about its limited utility.

Brian Bronson
New Oh right - read about it in Parachutist
Because - who else you gonna get to try it out but skydivers?

I always wondered if it ever got installed.



I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

--Alan Perlis
New Not only that ...
But it's only useable in level, steady flight. Now just what possible condition would prompt you to bail while still in level, steady flight? Landing gear malfunction, maybe. That's about it.
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Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
     Just lost the Space Shuttle Columbia on re-entry - (gdaustin) - (22)
         Hour and a half ago... CRAP CRAP!!!!! -NT - (folkert)
         Covered in News - (kmself)
         Re: Just lost the Space Shuttle Columbia on re-entry - (deSitter) - (12)
             Naw, it's Janet Reno - (kmself)
             Allah works in mysterious ways. - (a6l6e6x) - (10)
                 Re: Allah works in mysterious ways. - (deSitter) - (9)
                     So maybe "tire pressure" *wasn't* a euphamism after all -NT - (drewk) - (2)
                         Re: So maybe "tire pressure" *wasn't* a euphamism after all - (deSitter) - (1)
                             Heard that too - (Mike)
                     They do have abort procedures. - (a6l6e6x) - (5)
                         Oh sure, but it's mainly show - (deSitter) - (4)
                             Aye - (Steve Lowe) - (3)
                                 Small world. I worked with the AF guys that tested it - (bbronson) - (1)
                                     Oh right - read about it in Parachutist - (tuberculosis)
                                 Not only that ... - (drewk)
         Its been pointed out that the date was 03.02.01 -NT - (tuberculosis) - (6)
             Yeah, so... What's the significance of 1/2 -03? -NT - (CRConrad) - (5)
                 Countdown -NT - (tuberculosis) - (4)
                     The "43ll* is next in the series, d0oDz -NT - (Ashton)
                     Re: Countdown - (deSitter) - (2)
                         ROFL! maybe the bong would be better -NT - (boxley)
                         Funny, the style of that post is somehow vaguely familiar... -NT - (CRConrad)

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