NASA MLAS Launch | Tests Alternate Launch Abort System For Astronaut Escape - 08 July 2009

[SuperNorfolksouthern]

2:01 LAUNCH

[skinnywhop87]

so is this made for cases like the challenger or columbia? What's the practical use of this vehicle?

[jmantheburninator]

Cool I'm quite pleased to see that there's something being done to protect those guys if things go bad. Now to see if this thing actually gives them enough time to get away from an explosion.

[journeyquest1]

The flying shop vac.

[HelpSaveTheEarth2051]

This is so low-tech,look at how many parachutes...i expected better....

[LCPStud]

If you knew anything about parachutes, you would see that this is a very reliable deployment system.

With parachutes, the fewer moving parts, the better.

[wiseman85]

You are a fucking idiot. This is designed for the early to fairly late stages of launch. So taking that into account they built a multi stage parachute system. You cannot unleash one massive ass parachute at 120,000ft and several thousand mile per hour, you would possibly destroy the parachute and if the chute stays together you would kill the occupants. So you propel them away from the burning aircaft....stabalize their fall...then slowly reduce their decent to a survivable speed.

[MrDoulikepancakes]

@wiseman85 very true. also it would bust every fruckin blood vessel in body

[PocketAces18]

It appears to have worked flawlessly... a job well done!

[Membrane556]

This is probably related to son of shuttle-c as Ares I can't safely lift Orion.

They went as far as temporally pulling the WCS to save mass have any idea how much stuff gets axed before you get to that?

It would be much more compatible with the side mount CLV which also would allow them to put back the toilet,gally,seats for six vs four, autonomous avionics, and extra fuel in the SM .

[PocketAces18]

It's likely NASA will scrape Ares-I and move to a 2 launch system with a smaller Ares-V... at least that's the scuttle butt around the water cooler lately...

[FoxMeister14]

A rocket propelled russian doll

[theaggravator]

Waste of tax money - they should be spending the people's money on building better launch craft and better inspections before launches - if even at all!

[cutterschoicenotmine]

shut up

[ILoveDpu]

It is like a fireworks display of parachutes.

[perfgeek]

Looks like Son of Little Joe :)

[megiepie339]

my dad helped build that, hes the guy behind the laptop

[theaggravator]

my dad uses $500 Gov hammers

[bradkrit]

@megiepie339 Sam?

[gk123434534]

Very cool! ... I wonder if they are worried about any of the other components hitting it on landing.

[virus86]

yeah! I was thinking about that. How many stages? It looks like there are 5 components..each with their own parachutes coming down. I wonder what the abort system looks like.

[bradkrit]

@gk123434534 We were, the smartest guy I know ran thousands of simulations to make sure that wouldn't happen.

[tobitege]

Well, it looked like a pretty hard landing to me, nevertheless. But it worked!