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The Max Launch Abort System, an escape system for astronauts, blasts off from Wallops Island, Va., on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The MLAS will be used with NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is expected to start carrying passengers to the International Space Station by 2015. (Ryan C. Henriksen | The Virginian-Pilot)

From bottom, the command module simulator, forward fairing and the forward bay cover, all sections from the Max Launch Abort System, fall with parachutes after a successful test of the Alternate Astronaut Escape System on Wallops Island, Va., on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (Ryan C. Henriksen | The Virginian-Pilot)

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There’s a video at the link

[GeronL]

very cool