@spaceflight Fan fact Apollo did something similar to the S turn to adjust it's path since it had some lift so by the time the Shuttle came around this was old hat for NASA.
@spaceflight AFAICR during the Challenger explosion the crew compartment actually survived the explosion. An emergency parachute on the entire compartment perhaps would have been feasible. The shuttle was a cool idea but lot's of stupid mistakes made.
@Dianora indeed : "The crew compartment and many other fragments from the shuttle were recovered from the ocean floor after a three-month search-and-recovery operation. The exact timing of the deaths of the crew is unknown, but several crew members are thought to have survived the initial breakup of the spacecraft. The orbiter had no escape system, and the impact of the crew compartment at terminal velocity with the ocean surface was too violent to be survivable." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster#Recovery_of_debris_and_crew
@spaceflight And it has been possible to use small parachutes to rescue small planes for a few years now. Whether the shuttle crew compartment would have been light enough for such a modern system is something I don't know.
@spaceflight People flying get radiation. It's a problem there too. Someone was working on a system to detect "holes" of more radiation so aircraft could avoid unusually high radiation patches...
@Dianora nice but the problem is the number (without "squall") : "astronauts 👨🚀 receive roughly 250 times 📈 more radiation than a person on Earth". Which means the equivalent of 62,5 years on Earth within 3 months.
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