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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection."
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This is a relatively early mention of the idea of an ejection seat for a spacecraft.
Ejection seats for aircraft were first used in Germany in 1938; they were perfected during the second world war. As far as I know, the only ejection seats formally designed and used in spacecraft were installed in the Soviet Vostok craft and the American Gemini craft. (See a picture of the Vostok spacecraft ejection seat.)
The earliest flights of the Space Shuttle also had installed ejector seats; these were removed to make room for more crew. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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