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NASA launch of Orion crew capsule tests abort system
Read full article: NASA launch of Orion crew capsule tests abort systemCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA conducted a full-stress launch abort test Tuesday for the Orion capsules designed to carry astronauts to the moon. NASA aims to put astronauts back on the moon by 2024 using its still-in-development Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket. This was the second abort test for Orion, conducted at a speed of more than 800 mph. A launch abort system on a Russian rocket saved the lives of two astronauts last October. "It had been 35 years since anyone on the planet had had to exercise their launch abort system," NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik told reporters Monday.
