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SpaceX Crew Dragon pad abort: Test flight demos launch escape system [i]With a flash of flame and a puff of smoke, SpaceX's first '21st century spacecraft' soared skyward on Wednesday (May 6) in a test that left the rocket behind. The commercial spaceflight company's first Crew Dragon, a capsule designed to fly astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, leapt off its launch pad, but not because of a booster propelling it from below. Instead, the Dragon fired its own on board thrusters in a demonstration of its launch escape system. "I'm just very proud of the SpaceX team for achieving this right off the bat," Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, told reporters after the flight. "It was quite a complicated test." Known as a "pad abort test," the Dragon's flight was a trial run for the system developed to quickly get the spacecraft and its crew away from its rocket in the event of an inflight failure.[/i]
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