Testing Orion's Abort Motor - Close Up

[Infidelerious]

Yeah, I reckon that should just about do it.

[eatingjif]

that shit is fucking powerful

[arsenal553]

need one of those for my estes rockets

[shittyfuck]

how many hp ?

[MrPacMan36]

who wants eggs and bacon for breakfast this morning!

[XxnesiexX]

and to think this is their job i think everyone has made up their minds of where they want to work

[Cketzalcoatl]

Ok, I had to laugh at the kitchen stove joke below, I'll never understand why my stove has 9 notches on the dial when no.3 makes a 20 cm high column of flames erupt

But yeah, incredible piece of rocketry we have here

[KitZunekaze]

This is a brilliant invention and idea. It could save lives.

[bleed0range]

I'm pretty sure it's not a new idea.

[KitZunekaze]

Didn't really mean to imply that it was NEW perse. But it is a brilliant invention. I know earlier spacecraft did not have this sort of emergency abort motor.

[PocketAces18]

Welp, you would think so but you would be wrong. Mercury, Gemini, Saturn, all these systems had abort towers. Shuttle was the first American space flight system not to utilize such a component. Getting back to the basics with this baby.

[ApolloWasReal]

@PocketAces18 Gemini didn't have an abort tower; it used ejection seats, one for each pilot. None of these escape systems was ever used in Mercury, Gemini or Apollo, though the Russians have have had to use theirs with Soyuz at least once.

[Fritz641]

the soviets/russians have/had this too.... for the past 40 years

[werdnativ]

Actually, so have the Americans... this is basically the same system as on Apollo.

[mullethippie96]

@KitZunekaze like 3 or 4 max

[KnuckleBallz]

just like my kitchen stove