On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:22:24 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:

so you might have been jumping into a cloud of hydrazine and UDMH,
which wouldn't have helped your pressure suit or parachute any.

Note how I managed to equip the Shuttle with a monopropellant RCS? :-)

Fortunately, the resulting toxic cloud whizzed harmlessly over
everybody's heads

Dale