[TML] lifeboats

[Richard Aiken]

On 9/20/07, shadow at shadowgard.com <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> Basically, if something fails between orbit and ground, you are
> screwed unless you are in very special escape craft that are built in
> to the ship and designed to separate while it is in trouble (not an
> easy thing).

I once re-designed the bridge section of a Sulieman as a
rocket-boosted escape vehicle.  I never got to use the design . . .
but it would have been really exciting if I had!

-- 
Richard Aiken

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