Six tests have been successfully conducted for a Space Shuttle Rocket Extraction Escape System (REES) for astronauts, using a modified Convair 240 aircraft with a simulated Shuttle Orbiter hatch. All escape trajectories are judged to have been able to clear the Orbiter by an acceptable margin, and the crew-extraction loads were found to be within accepted physiological tolerances. The REES concept can be applied to numerous other aircraft configurations for crew escape.
Development of the Rocket Extraction Escape System for the Space Shuttle
Annual SAFE Symposium ; 1988 ; Las Vegas, NV, United States
1989-01-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
Space Shuttle system solid rocket booster
AIAA | 1973
|Space Shuttle solid rocket booster
NTRS | 1979
|Space Shuttle system solid rocket booster.
NTRS | 1973
|NASA Space Shuttle Advanced Crew Escape Suit Development
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
|