{"id":93050,"date":"2019-07-02T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/nasas-ascent-abort-2-test-of-orion"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:22:46","slug":"nasas-ascent-abort-2-test-of-orion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/nasas-ascent-abort-2-test-of-orion","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Ascent Abort-2 Test of Orion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/231828237700368?fields=format\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-autoplay=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p>What is today\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASAOrion\/?fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARC_71qFbQL-mr7gamW22tNsdaIJRQKRxSgPxcVL6vVF1FmppEmJELLDKIKd_daGO4hvBs3TaVSh-g0WL6NqWwqECasuccHXUZ1LY39Crjvk9uiXQhQk7oeYcq3PCHvzp2bGRCUzhtonoelfOwkToVbbyNAEl5u6xDWmEWvdNSUNY2FsM6xWhd92_iY8BfIV1weAl5oK7nTyjlz80G7QPcipN1AewRG2BOARwluzykhlvEL6O10wWAX1TBn7X-MagLnXWToORA0dFJcND3OBTQYyCyEf0BpYlJCzBLlGBAOPcJLUVttGWNgKi8v0bZueSw&__tn__=K-R\">NASA\u2019s Orion Spacecraft<\/a> ascent abort test all about? We\u2019re verifying the Orion capsule\u2019s launch abort system, a tower on top of the crew module, can steer the capsule and astronauts inside it to safety in the event of an issue after liftoff. The test is quick, fast and high, lasting less than three minutes with the test crew module reaching an average speed of Mach 1.5, roughly 1020 miles per hour, at approximately 32,000 feet in altitude.<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/323AaQO\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/323AaQO\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/323AaQO<\/a><\/a> Latest updates: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/323AbnQ\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/323AbnQ\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/323AbnQ<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is today\u2019s NASA\u2019s Orion Spacecraft ascent abort test all about? We\u2019re verifying the Orion capsule\u2019s launch abort system, a tower on top of the crew module, can steer the capsule and astronauts inside it to safety in the event of an issue after liftoff. The test is quick, fast and high, lasting less than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}