We’re breaking up! Head to the MOOSE!
Those words have never been uttered by space travelers so far, but in the 1960s, it was at least spit-balled by a team of NASA and USAF engineers sitting around a drawing board burning lean muscle tissue into the night as they chain smoked unfiltered Camels and cleaned their horn-rimmed glasses on linen handkerchiefs.
Designed by GE and dubbed the MOOSE, (either Man Out Of Space Easiest or Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment) it was the emergency bail out life-pod that was supposed to be able to drop an astronaut back to Earth from orbit ala Orbital Drop Shock Trooper-style if their craft was not going to make it.
Looks legit…volunteers?