Pad abort

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SpaceX conducted the first flight test of its Crew Dragon on Wednesday (May 6), demonstrating how the spacecraft and its future astronaut crews could fly away from a launch failure. The two-minute pad abort test used the Dragon’s eight SuperDraco engines to push it just under a mile high and 1.4 miles downrange to a parachute-assisted splashdown. The same Dragon will be used for an in-flight abort test atop a Falcon 9 rocket later this year.

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