MOOSE, originally an acronym for Man Out Of Space Easiest and later renamed Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment, was a proposed emergency bail-out system meant to bring a single astronaut safely down from Earth orbit to the ground. General Electric proposed the design in the early 1960s. The system was compact enough to fit inside a suitcase-sized container weighing about 200 pounds, combining a small twin-nozzle rocket motor to deorbit the astronaut, a heat-shielded bag made of plastic film with a flexible ablative back panel, canisters of polyurethane foam to fill that bag rigid, a parachute, radio equipment, and a survival kit. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Neither NASA nor the U.S. Air Force expressed an interest in the MOOSE system, and so by the end of the 1960s the program had been quietly shelvedView the Source Wikipedia: MOOSE
In Group: Crewed Space Capsules, MOOSE, originally an acronym for Man Out Of Space Easiest but later changed to the more professional-sounding Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment, was a proposed emergency "bail-out"View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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