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If the fools want to give up their money - someone might as well take it.
Think about how much that money could have helped the poor, or marginalized groups, or those Gaza citizens, or Ukraine. No, it had to be spent on these women and this publicity stunt.
Why didn't Antifa, BLM, Pro-Hamas, et al protest this?
You think the pressure in space would be from inside the capsule and not from the atmospheric pressure on the outside?
All capsules open from the outside with the doors opening outwards, even the one that was stuck in space for 9 months opened outwards.
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How dare you cloud this issue with insignificant facts and trivia! š¤£
Higher pressure inside, lower pressure inside, the door/hatch should open inward...
This is what I was thinking.
Space is a very near vacuum, therefore the air pressure inside the capsule is much, much higher. It is always trying to push things out of the capsule: loose items, people, doors.
Some spacecraft may have doors that open to the outside - I don't know - but I'd say it's a nice built-in failsafe to have them open inward.
Didn't the inside opening plug door contribute to the Apollo 1 disaster, as the astronauts weren't able to open the door to escape?
Always a joy to come back in the Non Moto section and see those who are in tune with what is going on, and those who are out to lunch served by the typical outlets
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I reckon it's their money and they can waste...er...uhmm...spend it any way they want. Just don't ask me what I think about it.
It did...
Who knew with such a light cast I would catch so many fishies already. Some things never change lol
Never knew that part. Interesting.
So, are all new spacecraft designed with explosive bolts and outward-opening doors now?
Not on Apollo, the hatch was redesigned with the emergency egress procedure for the right hand crewman to pull the lever
to operate a gearbox to activate the mechanism, the mechanism was pressure assisted...
I don't know what solutions other space craft have used.
Wow! That's gorgeous! Makes sense too.
Explosive bolts and an oxygen rich environment sounds sketch.
It looks like NASA redesigned the Space Shuttle after Challenger to add an in-flight crew escape system, which included explosive opening of the crew hatch...
"The in-flight crew escape system is provided for use only when the orbiter would be in controlled gliding flight and unable to reach a runway. This condition would normally lead to ditching. The crew escape system provides the flight crew with an alternative to water ditching or to landing on terrain other than a landing site. The probability of the flight crew surviving a ditching is very slim.
The hardware changes required to the orbiters enable the flight crew to equalize the pressurized crew compartment with the outside pressure via the depressurization valve opened by pyrotechnics in the crew compartment aft bulkhead that would be manually activated by a flight crew member in the middeck of the crew compartment; pyrotechnically jettison the crew ingress/egress side hatch manually in the middeck of the crew compartment; and bail out from the middeck through the ingress/egress side hatch opening after manually deploying the escape pole through, outside and down from the side hatch opening. One by one, each flight crew member attaches a lanyard hook assembly, which surrounds the deployed escape pole, to his or her parachute harness and egresses through the side hatch opening. Attached to the escape pole, the crew member slides down the pole and off the end. The escape pole provides each crew member with a trajectory that takes the crew member below the orbiter's left wing."
Yes, so we won't be deploying any explosive bolts while the cabin is pressurized with enriched oxygen air.
I worked quite a bit on the guillotine that severed the umbilical of the cockpit/capsule on the F-111 for the ejection procedure. No, I'm too young to be there in development, but they were always working on it, and defenestrating an oxygen charged capsule was always a consideration.
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I'm not going to lie, if I had the coin, I'd seriously consider it. Maybe not on Bezos' Rocket Wiener, but I'd love to go up there.
Somedayā¦civilians will be getting āspace based occupationsāā¦working on the moon, working on a space station or space transport system(like refueling/refilling on-orbit and/or in-route), working on your way to a station or another planetā¦maybe been working at a Very/Extremely High Altitude Launch Platformā¦
Think of a slightly lighter NASA-like astronaut program with a focus on the job(s) needed for more frequent and a more standardized space transport industryā¦more āmission specialistsā with their primary focus on a specific job andā¦alsoā¦some serious training for other necessary space functions during transport stages. Not unlike some of the programs for the current Space-X and BlueOrigin service flights (not to be compared to the Six-Chicks-Carnival Ride) š¤£
Btw, it looks like weāre only a year or 2 away from the 1st test of a āfully-reusable space vehicleāā¦
Space X is working on the 2nd stage being reusable and I believe theyāre about to test that system.
Brother, I worked on the 111. Went to war with 'em. As far as I know there was never a successful egress from an Aardvark. That guillotine system was the culprit. Just what I was told. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You have more faith in human intelligence than I do pard. I include my self in that group.š
Could very well be. I know they were regularly making little changes which is where I was involved making tooling for the new designs.
I never got to see the complete system , just random parts.
My understanding was that the sequencing between chopping all the wiring, plumbing, etc and capsule separation and chute deployment just never jived.
I think thereās quite a few successful ejectsā¦letās lookā¦
https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/wiki.php?id=60439
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/aardvark-down-former-f-111-wso-tells-the-story-of-his-ejection-over-north-vietnam-during-operation-linebacker-ii/
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA110199.pdf
The Aardvark got a bad rapā¦
The RAAF even had successful ejections...
https://www.sydneyflighttraining.com.au/post/sft-stories-captain-mark-kelly-and-the-f111c-fighter-jet
https://www.qldair.museum/make-the-most-of-the-season-by-following-these-simple-guidelines
I havenāt looked it up; but, I recall the RAAF really capitalizing on the low-alt capabilities along with adapting the bird for low & high alt recon on top of all the tactical jamming and listening kit that was built into it.
We can't talk about that!
But the RAAF did fly an F111 low level, at speed, over Jakarta in 1999, while the Indonesian leadership was discussing their incursion into East Timor.
Like I was sayināā¦
The Aardvark got a shit rap.
You Aussies got to utilize some of The Best Tech of The Aardvark Program including some stuff that was originally intended for our Navy.
That bird could fuck shit up from waaaay down low. It was an amazing airframe. It could pull more gās than the designers intended. Thatās pretty fuckinā funny and very Aussie.
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