Technicians used a crane to hoist the boilerplate crew module for the Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) flight test from its transportation dolly March 23 to prepare for mounting it on the launch pad at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
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Technicians used a crane to hoist the boilerplate crew module for the Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) flight test from its transportation dolly March 23 to prepare for mounting it on the launch pad at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The integrated flight test evaluated the ability of a launch abort system to pull the module and an astronaut crew to safety in case of an emergency on a launch pad.March 23, 2010
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