New U.S. rockets include crew launch-escape systems
October 30, 2014 at 17:15 PM EDT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Oct 30 (Reuters) - Heeding a lesson from history, designers of a new generation of U.S. rockets will include escape systems to give crew members a fighting chance of surviving launch accidents such as the one that felled an unmanned Orbital Sciences Antares rocket on Tuesday.