abort
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NASA’s powerful Launch Abort System, designed to outrun an exploding rocket, is the result of years of work from scientists and engineers across the country, including in Southern California’s Mojave Desert.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
“At first I thought, my gosh we’re actually going to have our first ‘Return to Launch Site Abort.’
From Washington Times • Jan. 30, 2021
The Orion spacecraft, NASA’s next generation of manned craft in development, also features an LES mounted on top of the craft, called a Launch Abort System.
From Time • Nov. 18, 2014
As Cypher warns Kitai: “This mission has reach Abort Criteria.”
From Time • May 30, 2013
Abort, ab-ort′, v.i. to miscarry in birth: to remain in a rudimentary state.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Vocabulary lists containing abort
"The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller, List 4
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Novel Study: The Bluest Eye, Pages IX–93
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