Lockheed EEOED - Lockheed Emergency Earth Orbital Escape Device - 3 crew 22,820 bytes. 272 x 302 pixels.

Lockheed's EEOED was a three-crew Discovery-type re-entry vehicle. Unlike other concepts, it was equipped with a wide 1 m diameter hatch and provided a pressurized shirt-sleeve enivronment for the three crew. New lightweight heat shield technologies would, it was claimed, make possible a total mass for three crew less than that of the original one-crew Mercury capsule. Mass per crew: 413 kg.

Craft.Crew Size: 3. Total Length: 3.7 m. Maximum Diameter: 2.9 m. Total Mass: 1,240 kg. Main Engine Propellants: Solid.

• 419 - Kane, Francis X, IAA, "A Thirty Year Perspective on Manned Space Safety and Rescue: Where We've Been; Where We Are; Where We Are Going", IAA 84-270, 1984.