OM wrote:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:11:02 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

It certainly would have been challenging in the crew escape during a
launch abort situation.

"It would have been one hell of a headache, but it would have been a
short one!"

It appears to been intended to use a combo of a large escape tower and
two big hatches for the passenger ejection seats:
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/bigemini.htm
As to how all the rocket exhaust from the passenger ejection seats was
to be handled is a good question; there's some info on the Gemini seats
he http://www.ejectionsite.com/gemini.htm
Fire that many people out at once and there's bound to be the threat of
a midair collision or parachute tangling; fire them in a staggered order
and the last guys out are going to get fried from the exhaust of the
first guys out seats.

Pat