![]() Desirable as it might be, however, it is only a fiction. This is kind of fiction that inspires the inclusion of escape pods in spacecraft designs. Unlike a 'lifeboat' craft escape pods are often seems as disposable, having only enough power to make a safe landing and call for help.Įscaping from a dying spaceship just in time to see it exploded in a nuclear fireball moments before the escape pod begins to tear into the atmosphere of the inhabitable, uncharted planet. This is the type seen often in Star Wars, especially the animated Clone Wars, although those are far more sophisticated than might be the case. ![]() If used in deep space the pod would simply float until help arrived, as it could if the planet was unsuitable for landing. As in the case of the Narcissus a 'lifeboat' the craft such as these may in fact be the auxiliary vessel carried as part of normal operation this is seen in Star Trek(2009) when the USS Kelvin was evacuated with the shuttles.Īn escape pod can only be used to reach the surface of a planet from orbit, and possesses only enough DeltaV to deorbit, often combined with atmospheric braking. These two craft do not qualify as escape pods because they have an extended flight capability, enabling in them to make planetfall from beyond orbit, or reach a inhabited system from deal space. ![]() ![]() Quite often there are small spacecraft that serve the same role, such as the Narcissus shuttle from Alien, or the escape craft in which Ripley, Newt, and Hicks escape from the USCSS Nostromo in Alien3(more soap). Like many kinds of SF tech the escape pod is often confused with other vehicles, and/or misnamed. ![]()
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