New U.S. rockets include crew launch-escape systems

Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 17:10 in Astronomy & Space

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (Reuters) - Heeding a lesson from history, designers of a new generation of U.S. rockets will include escape systems to give crew members a fighting chance of surviving launch accidents such as the one that felled an unmanned Orbital Sciences Antares rocket on Tuesday.

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