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On May 6, 2010, at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) near Las Cruces, New Mexico, NASA conducted a successful flight test known as Pad Abort-1, a test of the Orion launch abort system (LAS), a critical safety system that sits atop Orion at launch and during ascent.