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Re:SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch by taf2 on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:54PM (#13400496)
True it'd be rather nice to not have to read another article like: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/25/466555217/...

in 30 years

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Re:SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch by mikeash on Saturday January 14, 2017 @04:08PM (#13400561)
Unlike the Shuttle, SpaceX's manned vehicle will have the ability to escape an exploding launcher. It's best avoided, obviously, but a repeat of Challenger should end with everybody safe and sound, just not in orbit.
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Re:SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch by agildehaus on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:33PM (#13401803)
Dragon 2 will have abort modes throughout the flight. The Interplanetary Transport System (aka MCT)? Nope.
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Re:SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch by nickik on Sunday January 15, 2017 @02:23AM (#13402821)
Not quite true. The MCT should be able to escape as well, it will just not be able to do it as reactivly as the Dragon 2.
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Re:SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch by agildehaus on Sunday January 15, 2017 @02:43AM (#13402889)
Definitely not as reactively, not convinced it will work as an abort, and not at all on Mars.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/780896313676148...

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