rescuing spacemen stranded in space

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rescuing spacemen stranded in space

anthonyappleyard <MCLSSAA2@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>
Pam McCaughey [mailto:[hidden email]] wrote (Subject: [SHADO] Re: How do
you get into a Mobile? or an Interceptor?):-

> SHADO should have a special rescue squad to pick up astronauts who've had to
> eject. It isn't easy to replace such trained personnel and the air forces of
> many nations do provide escape means if the aircraft are compromised. ...

In my novelization of the UFO comic-strip story "The Snatch" (Foster is
abducted to the alien homeworld and steals a UFO and comes back), I say that
an Interceptor fired a special small capture-and-return missile that trailed
entangling ropes, used to recover men (or aliens) stranded in space.