Mocking NASA's efforts is tasteless, but even they'd admit this one was probably not their best work. It never left the prototype stage.
rescue ball
If this unit seems humorous to you, in the same vein as the “hide under your desk during a nuclear attack” school emergency drills, who can blame you? The PRE would be tethered to the Space Shuttle until the airlock depressurized, then a suited astronaut from the rescue shuttle would transport the PRE and the astronaut inside to the rescue shuttle. It could also be moved with the Canadarm or moved along a line connecting the two shuttles like a shirt on a clothesline. NASA planned to move an entire crew from a damaged shuttle to a rescue shuttle in this way.
“If a shuttle orbiter should become disabled,” the 1979 booklet said, “the commander and payload specialist will get inside of a personal rescue enclosure; the pilot and mission specialist will don their spacesuits.”In the lead-up to the Shuttle Program, the popular press covered the program extensively. The PRE even made it into Popular Mechanics, ‘twixt competing cigarette ads, and ads for wood-panelled station wagons.
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