The Pic of the Day: Hot-fire test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft launch abort system
Engineers conducted a static hot-fire test of the Orion spacecraft’s Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor at a Northrop Grumman facility on March 20, 2019 in Elkton, Maryland. The 30-second test is one in a series of three tests aimed at qualifying the motor for human spaceflight, to help ensure Orion is ready from liftoff […]







