Technicians at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center loaded the Orion flight test crew module onto an Air Force C-17 Aug. 18, 2009 for airlift to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
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Technicians at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center loaded the Orion flight test crew module onto an Air Force C-17 Aug. 18, 2009 for airlift to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This module was used for the Orion Launch Abort System Pad Abort-1 flight test. The first of five planned launch abort flight tests in NASA’s Constellation program, Pad Abort 1 was scheduled for early 2010 from the new launch pad at White Sands.August 18, 2009
NASA Photo / Tony Landis