The abort motor for the next-generation U.S. spaceship Orion successfully test-fired. Once Orion begins manned flights to space in the middle of the next decade, if a crisis occurs in the Ares rocket launching the Orion space capsule, the abort motor -- a rocket mounted above the capsule -- would fire, lifting the capsule up and away from the Ares rocket, taking astronauts away from harm. NASA, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] and Alliant Techsystems, Inc. [ATK]…
Orion Space Capsule Emergency Abort System Motor Test-Fired
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