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* Astronauts were skeptical of the ejection seats' usefulness. [[STS-1]] pilot [[Robert Crippen]] stated:{{quote|...in truth, if you had to use them while the solids were there, I don’t believe you would [survive]—if you popped out and then went down through the fire trail that’s behind the solids, that you would have ever survived, or if you did, you wouldn't have a parachute, because it would have been burned up in the process. But by the time the solids had burned out, you were up to too high an altitude to use it. ... So I personally didn't feel that the ejection seats were really going to help us out if we really ran into a contingency.<ref name="numbering-crippenoh">[http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/CrippenRL/CrippenRL_5-26-06.pdf "Robert L. Crippen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183030/http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/CrippenRL/CrippenRL_5-26-06.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}, NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project, 26 May 2006.</ref>}}
The Soviet shuttle ''[[Buran (spacecraft)|Buran]]'' was planned to be fitted with the crew emergency escape system, which would have included [[K-36RB]] (K-36M-11F35) seats and the [[Strizh]] full-pressure suit, qualified for altitudes up to {{convert|30,000
===Ejection capsule===
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