In addition to controlling Centaur pressurization in flight, the CISS had to be able to dump propellants overboard quickly in the event of a Return To Launch Site Abort, a capability needed to permit the Orbiter to land safely.

Orion consists of three main parts: a Crew Module ( CM ) similar to the Apollo Command Module but capable of holding four to six crew members ; a cylindrical Service Module ( SM ) containing the primary propulsion systems and consumable supplies ; and the Launch Abort System ( LAS ) which provides capability for the astronauts and Crew Module to escape from the launch vehicle should problems arise during launch ascent.

* Pad Abort Test-1 — Launch Escape System ( LES ) abort test from launch pad with Apollo Boilerplate BP-6.

The Beach Abort was an unmanned test in NASA's Project Mercury, of the Mercury spacecraft Launch Escape System.

BP-23 was refurbished as BP-23A and used for Launch Pad Abort Test 2.

The company's " pusher " Launch Abort System ( LAS ) was one of the technologies that was of particular interest to NASA.

** Pad Abort Test-1: Launch Escape System ( LES ) abort test from launch pad with Apollo Boilerplate BP-6.

The Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle being developed to follow the shuttle program will use a Mercury and Apollo-style escape rocket system, while an alternative system, called the Max Launch Abort System ( MLAS ), has been floated to use existing solid-rocket motors integrated into the bullet-shaped protective launch shroud.

Pease was one of 7 Launch Abort Sites and one of 18 Emergency Landing Sites for NASA space shuttle orbiters.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

During the launch phase of the mission, the Mercury spacecraft and astronaut were protected from launch vehicle failures by the Launch Escape System.

* Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System

For missions beyond low Earth orbit NASA is building the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft.

The planned Ares V rocket has been replaced with the smaller Space Launch System ( SLS ), which is planned to launch both Orion and other necessary hardware.

The United States Navy is also using linear induction motors in the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System that will replace traditional steam catapults on future aircraft carriers.

* Apollo Launch Escape System

* NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of its Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which was ended in 2011.

* Earth Departure Stage, the second stage of the Ares V and Block II Space Launch System launch vehicles

Watson, under a U. S. Air Force Ballistics Systems Division contract to evaluate the Minuteman I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ( ICBM ) Launch Control System.

* Nanosatellite Launch System, based at the University of Toronto

* National Launch System, a 1991 Space Shuttle alternative study

* Rocket Pod Container, the interchangeable containers used to transport and launch missiles for use with the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System

The Center will have the program office for what is being called the Space Launch System ( SLS ).

The Apollo Spacecraft was atop the launch vehicle, and was composed of the Lunar Module ( LM ) and the Command / Service Module ( CSM ) inside the Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter, with the Launch Escape System at the very top.

Fort Hood has been instrumental in the fielding of the M1 Abrams tank, M2 / 3 Bradley Infantry / Cavalry Fighting Vehicle, the Multiple Launch rocket System ( MLRS ), and the AH-64 Apache helicopter.

The First Team became the first division to field the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the Humvee, the Multiple Launch Rocket System and Mobile Subscriber Equipment ( MSE ) tactical communications.

Examples include the HL-20 Personnel Launch System ( 1990 ) and the Prometheus spaceplane ( 2010 ).

After the upgrade to the E-6B, the TACAMO aircraft – with the addition of an Airborne Launch Control System ( ALCS ) – took over the Looking Glass mission of the USAF.

Launch of the Stock Exchange Automated Trading System ( SEATS ).

The ACS is composed of the Aegis Weapon System ( AWS ), the fast-reaction component of the Aegis Anti-Aircraft Warfare ( AAW ) capability, along with the Phalanx Close In Weapon System ( CIWS ), the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System.

Notable systems using JOVIAL include the Milstar Communications Satellite, Advanced Cruise Missile, B-52, B-1B, B-2 bombers, C-130, C-141, and C-17 transport aircraft, F-111, F-15, F-16 ( prior to Block 50 ), and F-117 fighter aircraft, LANTIRN, U-2 aircraft, E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft, Navy Aegis cruisers, Army Multiple Launch Rocket System ( MLRS ), Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, F100, F117, and F119 jet engines, the NORAD air defense & control system ( Hughes HME-5118ME system ), the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment ( NADGE ) system and RL-10 rocket engines.

* 2010: Launch of the new single Baggage Handling System ( BHS ) for more efficient luggage delivery.

But an even bigger facility would be needed for the mammoth rocket required for the manned lunar mission, so land acquisition was started in July 1961 for a Launch Operations Center ( LOC ) immediately north of Canaveral at Merritt Island.

* 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.

Launch of a second KazSat is planned for 2009.

The Mars Direct proposal includes a component for a Launch Vehicle " Ares ", an Earth Return Vehicle ( ERV ) and a Mars Habitat Unit ( MHU ).

By June 1979, it was again mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters ( known as a boilerplate configuration ) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A for a series of fit checks of the facilities there.

This final flight, authorized in October 2010, brought additional supplies to the International Space Station and take advantage of the processing performed for the Launch on Need mission, which would only have been flown in the event that Endeavour's STS-134 crew required rescue.

Immediately following Skylab's launch, Pad A at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 was deactivated, and construction proceeded to modify it for the Space Shuttle program, originally targeting a maiden launch in June 1979.

Launch of a second KazSat is planned for 2009.

covered the theme song for their 1994 EP Astro Launch.

Launch would not occur for another two hours, and during the time Gagarin chatted with the mission's main CapCom, as well as Chief Designer Sergei Korolev, Nikolai Kamanin, and a few others.

Launch of Apollo 1 was planned for February 21, 1967, when the crew entered the spacecraft on January 27, mounted atop its Saturn IB booster on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, for a " plugs-out " test of the spacecraft, which included a rehearsal of the launch countdown procedure.

* Launch loop-A proposed system for launching vehicles into space using a linear motor powered loop

In 1996 the United States government selected Lockheed Martin and Boeing to each develop Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles ( EELV ) to compete for launch contracts and provide assured access to space.

In 2005, continued weak commercial demand for EELV launches drove Lockheed Martin and Boeing to propose a joint venture called the United Launch Alliance to monopolize the United States government launch market.

Since the bankruptcy, only seven additional satellites have been launched but an updated constellation of 66 satellites called Iridium NEXT is currently being developed and is planned for launch in 2015-2017 on SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Vehicles from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3 in California.

Launch planned for 2015.

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An additional safeguard is provided by requiring the crew in another Launch Control Center to do the same for the missiles to be launched.