Jump!

Well, not really. More like “Get away, get away!”

SpaceX, the private company designing rockets and capsules to provide passenger and freight service to NASA and presumably anyone else who wants to send stuff into space, is about to test an “Eject” capability for its Dragon capsule. Should there be a failure of the rocket, the company is trying to build a way for the entire payload to escape.

Sounds like a good plan to me, but boy, it’ll need some forceful rockets to get loose. The plan is to build eight of them into the walls of the capsule.

Think there’s room?

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