[NASA] A Practiced Escape

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In preparation for NASA’s

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, teams at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice getting out of the

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, or egress, basket on Aug. 9, 2024. The baskets, similar to gondolas on ski lifts, are used in the case of a pad abort emergency to enable astronauts and other pad personnel a way to quickly escape from the mobile launcher to the base of the pad and where waiting emergency transport vehicles will then drive them away.

Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

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