The Nation - News from July 2, 1986
A team of engineers has recommended that NASA install a space shuttle bail-out system so that astronauts can escape during a low-altitude emergency, but the group found no way to save lives in an accident such as the one that destroyed Challenger. A crew wearing special suits and breathing oxygen could use parachutes when the spacecraft is moving at low velocity below 100,000 feet in gliding flight, said Al Louviere, an engineer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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