{"id":32552,"date":"2024-03-17T17:32:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T21:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32552"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:36:52","slug":"nasa-m113-armored-rescuer-tank-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32552","title":{"rendered":"NASA M113 Armored Rescuer &#8211; Tank Encyclopedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/HuUX9vH.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"270\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">During its long life, the M113 APC found many uses, including with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) as a rescue vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/tanks-encyclopedia.com\/coldwar-us-nasa-m113-armored-rescuer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA M113 Armored Rescuer &#8211; Tank Encyclopedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: NASA used (<s>still?<\/s> <a href=\"#current-status\">nope<\/a>) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?tag=m113\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1627\" target=\"_blank\">M113<\/a> APCs as rescue vehicle, to take astronauts from bunker near rockets to safety.  Assumes the escape the conflagration, using zipline or other means.  But are those rubber tracks???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Youtube here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qLintdKYIhE?si=1zJLq0sOadpqF_oE\" target=\"_blank\">&#x1f30d;NASA&#8217;s Getaway Vehicle | NASA M113 Armoured Rescuer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/qLintdKYIhE?si=1zJLq0sOadpqF_oE\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"current-status\">2024-03-18 &#8211; no longer use the M113s, now MRAPs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NASA-M113-Armored-Rescuer-Tank-Encyclopedia-2024-03-18_14-28-33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NASA-M113-Armored-Rescuer-Tank-Encyclopedia-2024-03-18_14-28-33-1024x581.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NASA-M113-Armored-Rescuer-Tank-Encyclopedia-2024-03-18_14-28-33-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NASA-M113-Armored-Rescuer-Tank-Encyclopedia-2024-03-18_14-28-33-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NASA-M113-Armored-Rescuer-Tank-Encyclopedia-2024-03-18_14-28-33-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NASA-M113-Armored-Rescuer-Tank-Encyclopedia-2024-03-18_14-28-33-750x426.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NASA-M113-Armored-Rescuer-Tank-Encyclopedia-2024-03-18_14-28-33-1226x696.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NASA-M113-Armored-Rescuer-Tank-Encyclopedia-2024-03-18_14-28-33-675x383.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NASA-M113-Armored-Rescuer-Tank-Encyclopedia-2024-03-18_14-28-33.jpg 1534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During its long life, the M113 APC found many uses, including with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1627,443,140],"class_list":["post-32552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-m113","tag-nasa","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32552"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32563,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552\/revisions\/32563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}