What is an escape tower?

escape tower is a safety system for vehicles for orbital start lining. It consists of a row of rockets on the top of the tower mounted on the crew capsule, which is usually located at the tip of traditional space missions rocket configurations. Its purpose is to quickly separate only the crew caps from the rest of the rocket in an emergency during the start procedures. It consists of small but powerful one -stage missiles that produce a very large amount of drafts only for a second or two, which aim to pull the crew capsule without possible explosions or fires that can occur during catastrophic failures at the start of the rocket. He patented his design called "Antenna Emergency Emergency Estate Clamps" and NASA, an organization responsible for the American space program, called Mercury Escape Tower. Similar Systems was later adapted to the later series of spacecraft, such as the Apollo series, and the Russians for their Soyuz spacecraft.

Merkur capsules, the first spacecraft to use the escape tower, were equipped with a device that resembled an oil phenomenon ending with a group of small but very powerful missiles, which were tilted so that the exhaust gas did not directly enter into contact with the tower or pocket. They were arranged to quickly transfer the crew caps up and laterally away from the rocket to prevent the crew from any dangerous event during the start, such as a catastrophic fire, explosion or start failure. The escape tower was also equipped with parachutes to safely bring the crew capsules on the ground.

missiles on the escape tower were very small, but very strong and brought a huge amount of move through a short period of time. The intention of this design is to speed up the escape capsule very quickly to get from a potential danger in the shortest possible time. By providing a very large amount of draft, the capsule can be fired up and from the main starting vehicle in seconds.

The only recorded use of the escape tower was on the Soyuz rocket that resulted in the lives of two Soviet astronauts. Many years later, Cosmonauts was able to thank Max Faget personally for inventing a device that saved their lives. Today, NASA is developing a system for a similar purpose for its next generation of a spacecraft with a crew, Orion. It is named after the inventor of the original escape tower and is called the Max Launch ABORT System (Mlas).