NASA's Apollo raft spinoff saves lives

[mikea]

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/home/tech_life_givens.html

Steve Fossett was saved when he climbed into one of those when his balloon crashed into the Pacific.

 

[fgcason]

You just have to love the glory days of nasa. They let nothing get in the way of the objective no matter how impossible it was.

 

[Ghery]

"With winds gusting to 195 knots per hour,"

Knots per hour? That's not much acceleration.