English: A mannequin of Thomas P. Stafford in a Gemini space suit, seated in an ejection seat taken from a Gemini spacecraft. In the event of an accident during launch, the two-person Gemini spacecraft had rocket-propelled ejection seats to throw the crew clear, instead of the launch escape towers used by the Mercury and Apollo programs. The suit is like the one Stafford wore on the Gemini 9A mission, for which he was the command pilot. Stafford also flew on Gemini 6A, which was the only Gemini mission that came close to using the ejection seats: on its first launch attempt, the rocket's engines shut down just after ignition, before it had lifted from the launch pad, but the crew decided the situation wasn't serious enough to eject. The bright red-and-white object by the mannequin's shoulder is the ejection seat's drogue mortar; after ejection, this gun-type device would fire automatically to deploy a pilot chute that would pull out the astronaut's main parachute. The ring on the seat arm would help to keep the astronaut's arm in place during ejection. Displayed at the Stafford Air & Space Museum, Weatherford, Oklahoma, U.S. The museum was named for Stafford, a native of Weatherford.