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NASA image: Launch Abort System Ogive Panels
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Apr 16, 2014

Launch Abort System Ogive Panels

The launch abort system ogive panels are prepared for installation onto the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1)...

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NASA image: Launch Abort System Ogive Panels
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Apr 16, 2014

Launch Abort System Ogive Panels

The launch abort system ogive panels are prepared for installation onto the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1)...

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NASA image: Launch Abort System Ogive Panels
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Apr 16, 2014

Launch Abort System Ogive Panels

The launch abort system ogive panels are prepared for installation onto the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1)...

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NASA image: Launch Abort System Abort Motor Firing
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Jun 15, 2017

Launch Abort System Abort Motor Firing

The abort motor for Orion’s launch abort system fired for five seconds in a test at the Promontory, Utah facility of...

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NASA image: Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2
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Apr 26, 2017

Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2

The Orion heat shield from Exploration Flight Test-1, secured on a transporter, departs the Launch Abort System...

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NASA image: Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2
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Apr 26, 2017

Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2

Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion heat shield from...

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NASA image: Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2
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Apr 26, 2017

Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2

Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion heat shield from...

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NASA image: Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2
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Apr 26, 2017

Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2

Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane lowers the Orion heat...

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NASA image: Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2
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Apr 26, 2017

Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2

Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion heat shield from...

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NASA image: Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2
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Apr 26, 2017

Orion EFT-1 Heat Shield Move from LASF to VAB Highbay 2

Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion heat shield from...

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NASA image: Orion ETA Hardware, Launch Abort System and Crew Module Documentation Photographs
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Oct 18, 2023

Orion ETA Hardware, Launch Abort System and Crew Module Documentation Photographs

An engineer signals the truck driver carrying Orion’s Launch Abort System (LAS) at the Space Environments Complex....

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NASA image: EFT-1 Launch Abort System
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Mar 20, 2014

EFT-1 Launch Abort System

The Orion launch abort system for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is assembled in the Launch Abort System Facility...

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NASA image: EFT-1 Launch Abort System
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Mar 20, 2014

EFT-1 Launch Abort System

The Orion launch abort system for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is assembled in the Launch Abort System Facility...

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NASA image: EFT-1 Launch Abort System
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Mar 20, 2014

EFT-1 Launch Abort System

The Orion launch abort system for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is assembled in the Launch Abort System Facility...

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NASA image: EFT-1 Launch Abort System
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Mar 20, 2014

EFT-1 Launch Abort System

The Orion launch abort system for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) is assembled in the Launch Abort System Facility...

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NASA image: Launch abort system separates
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Dec 5, 2014

Launch abort system separates

Orion's launch abort system separates on its first flight test, Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), on December 5, 2014.

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NASA image: Artemis II Abort Motor mated to Jettison Motor with Artemis I LA
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Apr 15, 2020

Artemis II Abort Motor mated to Jettison Motor with Artemis I LA

The launch abort motor is integrated with the jettison motor for Orion’s launch abort system (LAS) for Artemis II,...

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NASA image: Artemis II Abort Motor mated to Jettison Motor
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Apr 15, 2020

Artemis II Abort Motor mated to Jettison Motor

The launch abort motor is integrated with the jettison motor for Orion’s launch abort system (LAS) for Artemis II,...

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NASA image: Flight Day 1: Launch Abort System Jettison
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Nov 16, 2022

Flight Day 1: Launch Abort System Jettison

art001m1203200651B (Nov. 16, 2022) The launch abort system was jettisoned approximately three minutes after launch...

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NASA image: The boilerplate Orion crew module for the Orion Launch Abort System Pad Abort-1 flight test undergoes moment-of-inertia testing at Dryden's Flight Loads Lab.
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Oct 27, 2008

The boilerplate Orion crew module for the Orion Launch Abort System Pad Abort-1 flight test undergoes moment-of-inertia testing at Dryden's Flight Loads Lab.

The boilerplate Orion crew module for the Orion Launch Abort System Pad Abort-1 flight test undergoes...

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NASA image: AA-2 Abort Motor Arrives at LASF
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Aug 28, 2018

AA-2 Abort Motor Arrives at LASF

The abort motor for Orion's Launch Abort System (LAS) is secured on a work stand inside the Launch Abort System...

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NASA image: AA-2 Abort Motor Arrives at LASF
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Aug 28, 2018

AA-2 Abort Motor Arrives at LASF

The abort motor for Orion's Launch Abort System (LAS) is secured on a work stand inside the Launch Abort System...

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NASA image: AA-2 Abort Motor Arrives at LASF
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Aug 28, 2018

AA-2 Abort Motor Arrives at LASF

The abort motor for Orion's Launch Abort System (LAS) is secured on a work stand inside the Launch Abort System...

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NASA image: AA-2 Abort Motor Arrives at LASF
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Aug 28, 2018

AA-2 Abort Motor Arrives at LASF

The abort motor for Orion's Launch Abort System (LAS) is secured on a work stand inside the Launch Abort System...

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NASA's Image and Video Library contains over 140,000 publicly accessible images, videos, and audio files spanning the agency's entire history, from the Mercury program of the 1960s to the latest James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. The collection grows daily as new missions capture imagery and archival materials are digitized. Individual mission archives, such as Mars rover photos, contain hundreds of thousands of additional images.
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