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SpaceX tests astronaut eject button

Publish Date
Thu, 7 May 2015, 2:07PM
Photo: Getty Images
Photo: Getty Images

SpaceX tests astronaut eject button

Publish Date
Thu, 7 May 2015, 2:07PM

SpaceX has launched the first flight test of the emergency astronaut escape feature on its Dragon spaceship.

No astronauts were on board for the brief launch pad abort test, which blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The spaceship aims to carry astronauts to low-Earth orbit as early as 2017.

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