Engineers evaluate the Emergency Egress System as they ride in seats attached to slide wires at Space Launch Complex 41.

Boeing and United Launch Alliance showed off an astronaut safety system during a media event the day before the 33rd Space Symposium.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...