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On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 05:56:01 -0700, Stormin' Norman
<norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium> wrote:
>On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 01:11:25 -0700, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
><invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On 7 Jul 2018 12:19:45 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>In article <knr1kdh3acprolne1elj8es65h68rhg13u@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>At Naval Air Facility El Centro in Southern California, SpaceX
>>>>safe landing in the unlikely event of a low altitude abort.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Looks like a yellow chute at first...then two reds...then four large red/whites.
>>>
>>>...what happened to the good ole days when ya yelled 'geronimo' while pulling
>>>the 'D' ring?
>>
>>Hope that unlikely low altitude abort is high enough to let that
>>whiole sequence - er, unfold...
>
>The Dragon has integral abort / landing rockets (as opposed to the
>escape tower for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo) which lofts the capsule
>to the altitude required for proper parachute deployment.
>
>See:
>https://www.space.com/29329-spacex-tests-dragon-launch-abort-system.html
>
>and
>
>https://gizmodo.com/the-emergency-escape-rockets-for-the-crew-dragon-are-su-1693625625
"You already knew that," my brain helpfully tells me. Now... =^}
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