NASA conducts a successful flight test of the Orion spacecraft's abort system
NASA's Orion spacecraft, which will carry the first woman and the next man to the moon in 2024, was successfully tested Tuesday.
Weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center in Florida were perfect for the launch to conduct the flight test, called Ascent Abort-2. The"stack" -- the parts comprising the rocket, abort system and capsule -- that launched is about 93 feet tall.A test version of the Orion crew capsule launched at the beginning of a four-hour window that opened at 7 a.m. ET Tuesday. No crew was aboard. "It was a very smooth liftoff," said Mark Kirasich, Orion program manager.
— NASA July 2, 2019 The test needed to be performed as early as possible for the Orion team to gather data and inform missions going forward.Read More"This test is extremely important," Kirasich said."Our Launch Abort System is a key safety feature of the spacecraft — it will protect the crew members who fly onboard Orion during the most challenging part of the mission, which is the ascent phase.
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