News - Max Launch Abort System
Aerospace engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center are conducting a series of wind tunnel tests to develop technology for future human space exploration.
HAMPTON, Va., March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The NASA engineer who worked behind the scenes to ensure a successful test of an astronaut escape system has been named the 2010 Engineer of the Year by the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA).
HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and its industry partners celebrated a test-firing of a critical safety component of the Orion crew exploration vehicle, the space agency's next generation of spacecraft designed to take astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond.
The U.S. space agency says it has successfully demonstrated an alternate launch abort system designed to allow astronauts to escape from their launch vehicle. The Max Launch Abort System was tested Wednesday at 6:26 a.m.
