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Imagine how stressful that job would be when astronauts are the payload!
by fudged71 10y ago
Imagine how stressful that job would be when astronauts are the payload!
- mandevil 10y agoThere were no self-destruct systems on the shuttle orbiter, though there were on the solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank. They were used only once, on the Space Shuttle Challenger after the orbiter broke up, but the SRB's were still burning in an uncontrolled manner.
- TrevorJ 10y agoYeah SRB's don't really have an off switch unfortunately.
- Coincoin 10y agoDon't worry, unlike the space shuttle, rockets have escape mechanisms. In that specific case, the astronauts would probably have survived as the emergency rocket thingies would have fired and evacuated them far from the explosion before it could reach the capsule.
- peletiah 10y agoHow are these triggered? Motion-sensors?