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The biggest stride NASA has taken toward getting its next-generation space-travel program, Constellation, in the air has been this year's successful motor test of the Launch Abort System, which will fire in an emergency and yank the crew capsule up and away from the main rocket below.

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The Launch Abort System uses a three-stage rocket to lift the Orion crew capsule away from a faltering rocket.

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