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    The Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test (officially known as the SpaceX Pad Abort Test) was a spacecraft test conducted by SpaceX on 6 May 2015 from the Space Launch...
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    The Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test (also known as Crew Dragon Launch Escape Demonstration) was a successful test of the SpaceX Dragon 2 abort system...
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    the first crewed flight, Demo-2, launched on 30 May 2020. SpaceX planned a series of four flight tests for the Crew Dragon: a pad abort test, an uncrewed...
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    achieve crew rating in 2017. Each company performed an uncrewed orbital test flight in 2019. SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-1 2019 flight of Dragon 2 arrived...
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  • A pad abort test is a kind of test of a launch escape system which conducted by setting the system along with the spacecraft still on the ground and let...
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    in-flight abort test, a post-launch abort test of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Crew Dragon pad abort test, a test of Dragon's abort system while on...
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    Crew Dragon Demo-2 (officially Crew Demo-2, SpaceX Demo-2, or Demonstration Mission-2) was the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft....
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    MLAS test launch. Ares-I-X The Orion Mass Simulator was used on the Ares I-X flight test. Pad Abort-1 An Orion boilerplate was used for the Pad Abort 1 flight...
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    SpaceX Crew-9 was the ninth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 15th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. Originally...
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    to achieve human rating for the system: pad abort, uncrewed orbital test, launch abort, and crewed orbital test. Operational missions were initially planned...
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    2019. Clark, Stephen. "Live coverage: SpaceX successfully performs Crew Dragon abort test". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020...
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    certify Crew Dragon. To receive the full contract amount, each company would need to successfully complete an abort test, an uncrewed orbital flight test, a...
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    B-23A. ISRO Pad Abort Testpad abort test of ISRO crew module Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test – Launch Abort test for the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and...
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    The Boeing Pad Abort Test (also abbreviated to Boe-PAT) was a test of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and its abort motors, conducted by Boeing as part of...
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    used to assemble the rocket at the pad. This capability was first demonstrated during Starship's fifth flight test, using a Block 1 booster. Starship...
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    Pad Abort Test. YouTube. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 3 September 2015. "Crew Dragon Completes Pad Abort Test". SpaceX...
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    rocket and its payload were destroyed on the launch pad during the fueling process before a static fire test was set to occur. Falcon Heavy was launched three...
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    Crew Dragon Demo-1 (officially Crew Demo-1, SpaceX Demo-1, or Demonstration Mission-1) was the first orbital test of the Dragon 2 spacecraft. The mission...
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    first key flight test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, a Pad Abort Test, in May 2015, and successfully conducted a full uncrewed test flight in early 2019...
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    September 2016, the pad was damaged when a Falcon 9 rocket exploded during liquid oxygen loading in preparation for a hot-fire test. The pad was repaired and...
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  • sub-orbital launch pad for its New Shepard rocket along with a landing pad. Additionally, LSO has a number of rocket engine test stands and engine test cells are...
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    LAS test following the Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) development test conducted in 2010 as a part of the ccanceled [sic] Constellation Program and the abort system...
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    for the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test. However, on 20 April 2019, Crew Dragon C204 was destroyed in an explosion during static fire testing at the Landing...
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    2020, crewed with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken. Both astronauts focused on conducting tests on the Crew Dragon capsule. Crew Dragon successfully...
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    emergency egress for the Dragon crew in the event of an emergency on the pad that does not necessitate using the Crew Dragon's launch abort system". In 2019,...
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    of the launch pad to increase its robustness, incorporation of additional reviews in the design process, additional analysis and testing of safety critical...
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    Space Shuttle (category Crewed spacecraft)
    2020). "NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Historic Test Flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon". Release 20-057. NASA. Archived from the original on August...
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  • Suborbital Pad B for static fire testing. It conducted a cryogenic test on May 7, followed by an aborted static fire test, and a 6 engine static fire test on...
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    Soyuz (spacecraft) (category Crewed spacecraft)
    Space Shuttle's 2011 retirement and the SpaceX Crew Dragon's 2020 debut, Soyuz was the sole means of crewed transportation to and from the International...
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    rocket ground and flight testing. In November 2019 the SpaceX South Texas Launch Site crew was working on a new launch pad for its Starship/Super Heavy...
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