Pat Flannery wrote:

Jeff Findley wrote:

Which is why after a few test flights, the ejection seats were removed from
Columbia (the first orbiter) and the crew wore crash helmets



Oh, I hope not...

Jose

That's correct. (You might remember a 'negative seats' call when they
exceeded the safe altitude/speed for their use) You can save only
pilot/co-pilot that way, and on the first flights, that's all there
were.

Having that now, would leave anyone else up the creek...

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