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Cool Pics from Orion Pad Abort 1 Flight Test
Posted on Jun 25, 2010 01:06:27 PM | NASA EDGE | 12 Comments    |

After glorious animation, a live webcast and a “Best of” vodcast, the success of the Orion Pad Abort 1 Flight Test continues to amaze.  These pictures come to us via our good buddies at White Sands Missile Range out in New Mexico, and for me they bring the experience home in a new way.

 

As one of the Orion Pad Abort 1 Team stated mid flight, “Today, we just saved astronauts’ lives.”  Even though there were no astronauts in the crew module for this test, NASA and their partners proved that the technology to save lives works.  And as we move forward, that is great news.


If you want to see high quality versions of these pictures, visit our flickr page.

 

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Enjoy,


The Co-Host


You can see that the Attitude Control Motor fires immediately to provide control.  (photo: White Sands Missile Range)


Orion successfully reoriented for separation.  (Photo: White Sands Missile Range)



All three motor systems worked as planned.  Will the chutes deploy?  (Photo: White Sands Missile Range)


Gravity dictates that the Launch Abort System lands first.  (Photo: White Sands Missile Range)


 

The Orion descends safely!  And provides a very nice picture.  (Photo: White Sands Missile Range)


The Orion has landed!  (Photo: White Sands Missile Range)


I'm pretty sure I could have survived this ride!  (Photo: White Sands Missile Range)


Not the usual desert image, but a very welcome one for NASA.  (Photo: White Sands Missile Range)

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12 On Nov 11, 2012 12:43:59 AM  4UFOs.com  added a comment on your blog post. 

Any technology to save the lives of any Astronaut is worth the investment and time you all are putting in. Great work, ladies and gentlemen!
Robert Hughey

11 On May 07, 2012 02:44:52 PM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

"Thanks for providing such an amazign view from the Orion Pad Abort 1 Team! I am so overwhelmed that can actually see everything from so close-up! Great pictures!"


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10 On Aug 28, 2011 07:57:44 AM  guesta  added a comment on your blog post. 

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9 On Aug 07, 2011 11:26:48 PM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

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8 On Jul 31, 2011 03:26:32 PM  Mark  added a comment on your blog post. 

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5 On Sep 19, 2010 04:15:23 PM  Tattoo Guy  added a comment on your blog post. 

"Do astronauts get tattoos?"

Tattoo guy

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4 On Sep 12, 2010 04:39:29 PM  Joan Hudson  added a comment on your blog post. 

Please at least look at these strange UFO photographs on flickr under the name Joan Hudson or My Starship link.
Yours Faifully
Mrs Hoan Hudson.

3 On Sep 12, 2010 04:52:03 PM  JoAN Hudsonv  added a comment on your blog post. 

Imagination is in the deep phsyche is it not? How then can it be explained in a camera, has that too a deep psychic imagination.
I was once told by a helpful police officer when my car was stolen, a picture is worth a thousand words, is this true of UFO's?
Joan Hudson.

2 On Aug 27, 2010 04:08:53 PM  Joan Hudson  added a comment on your blog post. 

I would like to report that I have captured on digital film a strange
oddity in the Bristol Channel air space in the UK.
Thev photoraphs were taken over a period of months after a period of star form activity.
This odd/weird sighting is designed as a coil or open ended necklace of what looks like man made aircraft engine that emit brilliant lights
at one of the open chain there is an attached sphere, this oddity appears to change shape adding more spheres, this oddity appears to be attached to a bright starlight body and can also be linked to other bright globe lights.
I have many photographs of this entity and am sure it is not of this planet Earth.
Yours Faithfully
MS J Hudson

1 On Jul 05, 2010 11:43:28 AM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

"Success in science, like many other endeavors, relies on using the right tool for the right job. And while our scientific imagination and creativity can carry us a long way, our scientific instruments allow us to collect and interpret data with unprecedented speed and reliability."

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