SPACEX’S EMERGENCY ESCAPE PLAN FOR ASTRONAUTS WAS TESTED SUCCESSFULLY.

NASA described it as a test flight "unlike any seen in Florida since the days of Apollo," but for anyone watching the live stream, the SpaceX test looked pretty serene. SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon capsule was blasted into the atmosphere with just a few seconds of rocket burn before it executed its abort sequence. First, the spacecraft's trunk was jettisoned, and then a succession of parachutes were deployed, dropping the capsule gently into the Atlantic ocean just a few thousand meters off the shore of Cape Canaveral.

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