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Orion abort modes



With the development of the new Orion spacecraft, which will replace the Space Shuttle after 2010, NASA decided to use a Soyuz-style launch escape system, a powerful solid-rocket motor attached to the nose of the spacecraft, via a "boost protective cover," in a manner similar to that employed for the Apollo Command Module. As the Orion spacecraft was designed to land on both solid ground and in the water, the former more favorable due to the corrosive nature of seawater, NASA, under the advice of the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) report, will most likely develop abort procedures that will minimize the risk associated with both launch and landing, and will resemble the abort procedurs used on both Apollo and Space Shuttle.



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