No doubt despite a mandatory course on handling asphyxiants.
On Friday, 22 April 2016, John Dom <johndom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lloyd Droppers wrote on 220416:
A few people died during space shuttle launch prep
https://nsc.nasa.gov/SFCS/SystemFailureCaseStudyFile/Download/523
Albeit the damage of pure N2 exposure proved fatal in the STS incident I
found it amazing their heart had kept beating (and maybe their breathing as
well?) for so long after their extraction to air.
As to the Scaled Composites cold flow fatalities due to N2O exposure (page
4): did they perform that test inside a non-ventilated compound as if it
were LOX?
jd
