For most of us, this would be a nightmare.
Imagine being curled up inside a 90 centimeter fabric sphere with a small window and a small air tank while dangling from theAs your tiny sphere shifts, you'd see Earth out your tiny window, then the Space Shuttle, damaged by some accident or other that caused you to need rescuing, then Earth again. Panic would set in pretty quickly.Personal Rescue EnclosureNASA developed the PRE simultaneously with the Space Shuttle Program.
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. 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-paneled station wagons.
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