Space vehicle emergency escape systems should be self-contained, simple, light weight devices that may be stored in high density package in parent vehicle; operational characteristics of inflatable paraglider for recovery of crews from space is considered; deployment of escape vehicle and aeromechanics of re-entry trajectories; design charts show influence of wing loading on total systems weight; control characteristics, component weights, and micrometeoroid hazards are analyzed.
Single and multicrew inflatable re-entry vehicles
Am Astronautical Soc -- Advances Astronautical Sciences
1963
12 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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