On: The Space Shuttle’s Controversial Launch Abort Pla...

[Pinckney]

Still not as crazy as the planned Lunar Escape Systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Escape_Systems

"There was no mass or power available in the LESS for an Inertial Measurement Unit to measure acceleration and tell the astronauts where they were, where they were going or how fast they would be getting there, or even for a radar altimeter to show altitude above the lunar surface."

[bpowah → Pinckney]

In the same vein, there was the proposed MOOSE reentry system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE

[dlgeek → Pinckney]

Wow, I've never heard of that before; you're right, it's COMPLETELY insane. That being said, the LRF version of that would have been amazingly cool.