[Cincinatus]

My back-of-the-PostIt-Note estimate says that no escape rockets, tugging a capsule, can out-accelerate a stage 1 under full thrust.

I guess they were just wasting their time with these vehicles then...

[RightWhale]

That always bothered me about the Space Shuttle. Or lack of that.

[Boundless]

> I guess they were just wasting their time with
> these vehicles then...

Not at all. Those escape systems sat of top of liquid
boosters, which could be shut down to allow the escape
system to get away.