NASA MLAS Launch | Tests Alternate Launch Abort System For Astronaut Escape - 08 July 2009

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Author:ApoloTR
Published:2009-07-08 20:09:51

Max Launch Abort System - NASA Engineering & Safety Center NASA has successfully demonstrated an alternate system for future astronauts to escape their launch vehicle. A simulated launch of the Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS, took place Wednesday morning at 6:26 a.m. at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. The unpiloted launch tested an alternate concept for safely propelling a future spacecraft and its crew away from a problem on the launch pad or during ascent. The MLAS consists of four solid rocket abort motors inside a bullet-shaped composite fairing attached to a full-scale mockup of the crew module.

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