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Dragon as a emergency return from orbit vehicle?
Lets imagine soyuz having another problem where replacement birds cant
launch. Could they send up a dragon and use it as a pure emergency return vehicle? Say with 2 space suited crew members some emergency oxygen, all remote controlled. The crew would enter dragon perhaps with inflatable couches, seal the hatch and be returned to earth. wonder how fast a departing dragon could in a emergency be re entered? This might enable during a soyuz problem to leave 2 ISS crew members for skelton operations while returning everyone else by soyuz....... the remaing 2 crew members would still have a way off in a true emergency |
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