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tahanson43206

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Lifeboat Liferaft Human return from orbit

This new topic in Life Support Systems is inspired by an idea offered by RGClark in a topic about space ship design.

This topic is intended to provide a place for NewMars members to collect information about how an individual human might be brought back to Earth safely as an individual.

There are opportunities for members to contribute links to existing work or to new articles that may appear.

More importantly, this topic provides a venue for NewMars members to contribute ideas for this important aspect of the exploration of Space.

The hypothesis introduced by RGClark is that if the wing loading on a re-entry lifeboat is made sufficiently low, the vehicle and the passenger might survive re-entry deceleration, and then be able to glide to a soft landing somewhere on Earth.

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tahanson43206

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Re: Lifeboat Liferaft Human return from orbit

This post is reserved for an index to posts that may be contributed by NewMars members over time.

If a reader would like to contribute see the Recruiting topic.

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SpaceNut

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Re: Lifeboat Liferaft Human return from orbit

Safe Haven came about when the space shuttle was considered to be too experimental to the point of always requiring 2 ships on the pad ready even though 1 was all that would launch for the mission as the second was for rescue once a shuttle could not return to earth,

Itt also lead to the tile patch kit in later years.

SpaceNut

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Re: Lifeboat Liferaft Human return from orbit

Currently the crewed Boeing Starliner craft is making use of the ISS as a safe haven but eventually these members will need to head h o m e.

If nothing else Nasa has the Dragon crewed and possibly the cargo for a return capability plus at worst the Artemis Orion capsule to bring them home.

As Oldfart1939 suggested they can send it home with no one on board to finish its testing.

Nasa has become a joke...

tahanson43206

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Re: Lifeboat Liferaft Human return from orbit

For SpaceNut ...

I don't think NASA deserves that poke .... it is a formerly distinguished and reliable vendor that has failed, for all the reasons that GW Johnson has listed in other topics.

NASA is no different from hundreds if not thousands of customers who have witnessed Boeing's decline after the money makers took over.

I saw part of a Congressional Hearing featuring the gent who's been heading Boeing in recent years.  He doesn't seem to comprehend the damage he and his stockholder partners have done.

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