ARCHIVED: NASA's Exploration Ground Systems

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POV: You’re a pararescuer jumping out of a C-17 🪂✈️

Watch this point-of-view footage from @NASAArtemis rescue demonstrations earlier this month, where teams rehearsed operations in the event of a pad abort or in-flight abort scenario. Part of this operation includes a C-17 aircraft carrying @usairforce pararescuers near a simulated splashdown location to retrieve the mannequin crew and transport them for medical care.

Using mannequin crew and the @NASA_Orion mockup Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), Exploration Ground Systems and @DeptofDefense teams in the sky and sea rehearsed procedures to rescue the @NASAArtemis II crew during an abort from Launch Complex 39B or during ascent to space. Teams in a C-17 aircraft dropped inflatable boats and support gear, jet skis, and survival equipment to aid rescue forces below.

Learn more here: go.nasa.gov/4jNdtXP

Firing rooms 1 and 2 were bustling last week!

Exploration Ground Systems teams completed cryogenic and term count simulations, along with gaseous oxygen loading onto @NASA_Orion. Teams also completed a two-part safety abort demonstration to practice recovery operations in the unlikely event of a pad or in-flight abort scenario.

Learn more about the safety abort demonstration here: go.nasa.gov/4jNdtXP

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