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Orion Abort Test Photos

By Keith Cowing on May 9, 2010 11:33 AM

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Abort Test Photos, Aviation Week

"NASA tested the launch abort system for the Orion crew exploration vehicle for the first time today, with spectacular results. Regardless of the ultimate fate of Orion -- now at the center of a Washington dispute over the future path of U.S. human spaceflight -- the test produced valuable data that can make future crew capsules much safer. William Faulkner, a freelance photographer in Las Cruces, N.M., took these shots of the test at nearby White Sands Missile Range for Aviation Week & Space Technology."

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richard schumacher | May 10, 2010 9:50 AM | Reply

A proper transportation system provides its own intact abort modes. Pulling a vehicle apart with artillery rockets that serve no other purpose is dangerous and wasteful.

sandrot | May 10, 2010 10:37 AM | Reply

> Pulling a vehicle apart with artillery rockets
> that serve no other purpose is dangerous and
> wasteful.

Go tell that to Vladimir Titov and Gennady Strekalov. You really need to better inform yourself.

Check this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFF4cpMVag

And this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-10-1

Dr_Prunesquallor | May 11, 2010 8:49 AM | Reply

"A proper transportation system provides its own intact abort modes".

Fantasy engineering.

hikingmike | May 12, 2010 1:09 PM | Reply

Man the vimeo link for a video in one of the comments under that article is AWESOME.

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