A launch escape system (LES) or launch abort system (LAS) is a crew-safety system connected to a space capsule. It is used in the event of a critical...

from the aerodynamic stress of launch and to connect the CSM to the Saturn launch vehicle and a launch escape system (LES) to carry the crew in the command...

Redstone launch vehicles contained an automatic abort sensing system which allowed them to abort a launch by firing the launch escape system if something...

tetroxide, was chosen as the launch escape motor for the Boeing Starliner capsule. The RS-88 stemmed from NASA's Bantam System Technology Project, part of...

the launch escape system (LES). These included simulated "pad aborts", which might occur while the Apollo-Saturn space vehicle was still on the launch pad...

for various SSME failure scenarios. An ejection escape system, sometimes called a "launch escape system", had been discussed many times for the shuttle...

specialized devices such as the Quick-MEDS delivery system and as part of the launch escape system for the Soyuz spacecraft. In 2014, SpaceX tested grid...

(LJ-1) was a failed launch of a Little Joe by NASA, a solid fuel rocket that was designed for a Max Q abort and launch escape system test for the Mercury...

small solid-fueled motor (the launch escape motor) at the top of the tower on the launch escape system. The launch escape tower would then be jettisoned...

crew capsule – Aircraft crew escape system Launch escape system – A system to get the crew to safety if a rocket launch fails Apollo abort modes – Plans...

the Soyuz capsule from the launch vehicle up to about two and a half minutes into powered flight. The launch escape system can be triggered by onboard...

is encased within a fairing with a launch escape system during liftoff. The first Soyuz mission, Kosmos 133, launched unmanned on 28 November 1966. The...

The Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) was a proposed alternative to the Maxime Faget-invented "tractor" launch escape system (LES) that was planned for use...

the Apollo spacecraft launch escape system (LES), and to verify the performance of the command module parachute recovery system in abort mode. It was...

rocket used by NASA for eight launches from 1959 to 1961 from Wallops Island, Virginia to test the launch escape system and heat shield for Project Mercury...

escape system, that lowers cost by being reusable and enhances safety by avoiding the jettison event of a traditional 'tractor' Launch Escape System,...

spacecraft Launch Escape System. Objectives of the test were a performance evaluation of the escape system, the parachute and landing system, and recovery...

SuperDraco engines provides fault-tolerant propulsion for use as a launch escape system for the SpaceX Dragon 2, a passenger-carrying space capsule. SuperDraco...

The Little Joe 1B was a launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. The mission also carried a...

The Little Joe 6 was a launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. The mission used a boilerplate...

of test of a launch escape system which conducted by setting the system along with the spacecraft still on the ground and let the system activate to carry...

hardware reassigned from other designations. The command module and launch escape system were unique to BP-27. The service module SM-010 (formerly SM-006)...

environmental control system tests, Oct. 22–29, 1964, consisted of command module 14, service module 3, launch escape system 14, and Saturn launch adapters. BP-15...

the launch escape system could safely remove the command module under critical abort conditions. Unlike Pad Abort Test 1, in which the launch escape system...

test of the launch escape system with the abort initiated from the launch pad. The launch escape system included qualified launch escape and pitch motors...

includes an integrated pusher launch escape system whose eight SuperDraco engines can separate the capsule away from the launch vehicle in an emergency. SpaceX...

sensing system. In an emergency where the rocket was about to suffer a catastrophic failure, an abort would activate the launch escape system attached...

in life support systems, spacecraft reentry, and other critical areas. Gemini's emergency launch escape system did not use an escape tower powered by...

rocket torpedoes rocket-powered jet packs rapid escape systems such as ejection seats and launch escape systems space probes A rocket design can be as simple...

Atlas LV-3B, Atlas D Mercury Launch Vehicle or Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle, was a human-rated expendable launch system used as part of the United States...