Re: What emergency...

"Brian Gaff" <Briang1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is this basket and armoured truck escape supposed to be used for?

Looks a bit risky, and surely the only sort of emergency it could maybe
have a place in would be poisonous gas or similar release in the cabin. If
the stack got punctured in a tank, or a fire occurred, I'd have thought it
would happen far to fast to be able to get out.

Brian


Cynically, the emergency it covers is the Congressional hearing after a pad
accident and Congress is asking why there wasn't an escape system at the
pad.

In reality, I think there's probably a few emergencies such as you mention
and perhaps a few others (maybe APU fire, OMS/RCS fire of some sort, etc.)
that it would be useful for.

Saturn had something similar and there's still supposed to be the bomb-proof
room built into the concrete pad that the emergency elevator would have
dropped them into.




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