How To Eject From a Spacecraft at Mach 4 - A History of Every Ejection System Used In Spaceflight

For some rockets and spacecraft the crew escape system was via an ejection seat, sometimes custom built for the task, sometimes adapted from an existing seat designed for a high performance plane.


Here's a great NASA paper on the Gemini ejection seat:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19670019706/downloads/19670019706.pdf

For a more general overview this website has collected a lot of good information
http://www.ejectionsite.com/


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