Topic: Gemini ejection seats: What about air hoses?
Jim_Voce Member
Posts: 273 From: Registered: Jul 2016
posted 07-29-2016 11:36 PM
How would have the Gemini pressure suit air hoses that connected the astronauts to the Gemini interior panel been handled if the astronauts had to eject from the spacecraft?
Were the air hoses connected to a part of the ejection seat instead of the panel in front of the astronauts? If so that might have permitted an unobstructed ejection from the spacecraft. But it brings up the question of how to deal with the air hose connections in between the time the astronauts were riding their ejection seats into the air to the point where they needed to physically separate themselves from the ejection seats in order to descend to earth by parachute.
oly Member
Posts: 971 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2015
posted 07-30-2016 12:01 AM
In a similar way that aircraft oxygen, anti g suit air pressure and communications systems are connected in military aircraft.