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"Engineers and technicians at
Langley designed and fabricated the structural shell of the simulated
crew module for the first pad abort test and now are conducting a
series of ground checks on the structure. The "crew module simulator,"
as it is called, accurately replicates the size, outer shape and mass
characteristics of the Orion crew module.
After the instrumented dummy crew module is delivered to White Sands
this summer, it will be integrated with the PA-1 launch abort system
flight test article, a vertical tower containing the escape rocket
motor and a guiding rocket motor currently under construction at
Orbital Sciences, Inc. in Dulles, Va. The combined crew module and
launch abort system will be placed on the launch pad being constructed
especially for the abort flight test series."
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Images by: NASA
Date: February, 2008
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A Field Guide to American Spacecraft
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