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To: SunkenCiv

Glad the capsule separated and landed successfully. Read somewhere that when spacecraft do that, anyone on board pulls way more Gs than in regular flight. Beats getting incinerated of course.


16 posted on 09/12/2022 8:33:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, yeah, the sudden boost has to exceed the main booster, but it’s brief, and as you said, beats hangin’ around to see how the main ride would wind up. :^)


17 posted on 09/12/2022 8:45:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

One early spaceflight had a complete rocket engine failure after a “flight” of only a few feet up from the pad. As the main rocket stalled, then fell back and began burning, the capsule escape rockets fired (by the default failure of their own safety circuits), and blasted the capsule completely clear of the burning area. NASA signed off on the “capsule escape rocket test flight” ... that had not been scheduled yet!


19 posted on 09/12/2022 11:30:11 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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