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TVDad Jim wrote:
Presumably heat shield hatches, like the Gemini-MOL design....

I'm imagining the ablative requirements of a heat shield door on an
Apollo-level fall from space.

Shouldn't actually be that hard to do, although you'd want to be more
careful about the details than on Gemini. Ablators are versatile.
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