Recent content by Jack Hagerty

Good summary, but the crew of Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin was not saved by the LES in the Soyuz launch. That had been jettisoned well before the booster emergency. They used a late-stage abort maneuver that let the capsule reenter ballistic on its own, since it was high enough.

Isn't the Orion a 1.5 X scale-up of an Apollo CM? Why did they need this super-huge aircraft to transport it? I'd think it would fit in any number of transport planes, even a C-130 (maybe).