Abort Test News Today

Good to see you. developing now in cape canaveral, one step closer to flying their own spacecraft. spacex launched its dragon capsule, one of two commercial ships that will fly future astronauts. test flights simulated what would happen in the event of a rocket failure on the launch pad. the three main parachutes blossomed and lowered the aircraft safely on the surf. according to nasa the abort test appeared to be perfect. coming up at the top of the hour mayor of baltimore is expected to an...

Rockets first stage fell away. look at this thing and the second stage ignited to push the capsule into orbit. everything is running perfectly they tell us, the founder of spacex said getting this thing off the ground was like winning the super bowl and nasa offered some congratulations. >> today marks the beginning of a new era in exploration. a future in space that will create good paying jobs here on the florida coast as well as throughout the united states of america. >> shepard: nasa admini...

First stage reached. second stage is reached. full open, three mains. bill: all right! im not an astronaut, but that looks perfect. martha: that was perfect. bill: tom jones is with us. he is an astronaut! tom? >> good morning, bill. bill: how did it look to you? >> it was an incredible jolt, i think, if there had been a crew onboard. this is an unmanned test force, the g load would be 18 times normal force of gravity, a little more than an ejection fire, this is a ryan abort test, to test to ge...