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.