With the high-altitude abort test facing at least a budget-driven delay, the Langley team has proposed conducting one or more less-expensive tests in its place.

With高海拔中止测试至少面临预算驱动的延迟， 兰利团队提出在他的地盘进行一个或多个便宜测试。

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It has also done an abort test of a capsule structure, blasting it into the sky from the ground and then recovering it on parachutes.

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The flight, perhaps climbing to around 5, 000 miles above the earth, is intended to test the capsule's emergency launch-abort system, as well other systems, and Orion's protection against damage from micro-meteorites.

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