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Old February 4th 17, 03:23 AM posted to sci.space.history
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default The Space Race was about Power Projection - Miles O'Brien

Jeff Findley wrote:


Agreed that the system was flawed in that it lacked a crew escape
capability on a vehicle that was large, complex, and prone to failure.
As for an escape capsule being a viable add-on to the shuttle, I call
bull****.


And the primary reason that it lacked a crew escape module is because
it was impossible to safely and rapidly terminate thrust to the solids
to allow such a system to work.

Which brings us back to flying human beings on solid boosters is a
special kind of stupid.


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