# I Wanna Go Space Diving!

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-go-space-diving/207708
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 16, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-go-space-diving/207708 "2003-10-16T02:17:11Z")
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### Author: ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-go-space-diving/207708/1 "2003-10-16T02:17:11Z")

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You remember in _Star Trek: Generations_ where Kirk plans to do a space dive? Well, [apparently NASA developed the gear to do it!](http://www.astronautix.com/craft/moose.htm) (And they did it back in the 1960’s!)

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> MOOSE was perhaps the most celebrated bail-out from orbit system of the early 1960’s. The suited astronaut would strap the MOOSE to his back, and jump out of the spacecraft or station into free space.

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> After a ballistic re-entry, the astronaut would pull the ripcord of the chest-parachute, which would pull him away from the heat shield for a parachute landing.

Kinda beats Slim Pickens stunt at the end of _Dr. Strangelove_, doncha think?