Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — Problems with the T-7A Red Hawk, including a potentially dangerous escape system and ejection seat, have caused the U ...

Simulating a launch pad emergency, an unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule was blasted away from Cape Canaveral Wednesday, shooting to an altitude of several thousand feet before arcing over for an offshore ...

Watch the video of CMC's LEVR™ Escape System and BT Escape System being used for emergency egress. Built around the innovative LEVR Descender, these systems provide easy horizontal payout. smooth edge ...

The EXO AP HOOK is a personal escape system with HOOK anchor hook adapted for locations where the possibility of finding an anchor point is uncertain. The original EXO descender was designed in ...

Rocket company Blue Origin pulled off a double success Wednesday, coming a step closer to launching people into space. The aerospace startup led by Amazon's Jeff Bezos tested the escape system of its ...

During the last couple of weeks I have been working the Launch Escape System (LES) design with Peter Madsen for Tycho Deep Space II. This engine and interface tower, capable of saving the capsule ...

NASA launched a powerful emergency escape system for its new Orion spacecraft on a successful test flight Thursday, even as plans for the crew capsule are still being restructured. Subscribe to read ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NASA successfully tested a system Thursday that would allow astronauts to escape during rocket-launch emergencies, the first abort system developed in more ...

In building a successor to the space shuttle, NASA has made one component a necessity: a system to let the crew escape should a catastrophe occur on the launch pad or during the first few seconds of ...