RTLS

Then people started talking about RTLS, which is return to launch site.

CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2006 2006

Then people started talking about RTLS, which is return to launch site.

CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2006 2006

Miles -- and you're right, the RTLS, or return to launch site abort is never, thank goodness, had to been used, and once you get up a little higher, a little faster, you've got options to go halfway around the world and land at a trans-Atlantic abort site.

CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2008 2008

The experts swore it would work and Mike and Hank had practiced RTLS aborts in the sim about a thousand times, but nobody wanted to be the first to field-test the procedure.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

The experts swore it would work and Mike and Hank had practiced RTLS aborts in the sim about a thousand times, but nobody wanted to be the first to field-test the procedure.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

The thought, then, was to move toward real-time location and sensor RTLS solutions.

Real-Time Solutions 2006

The experts swore it would work and Mike and Hank had practiced RTLS aborts in the sim about a thousand times, but nobody wanted to be the first to field-test the procedure.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

The experts swore it would work and Mike and Hank had practiced RTLS aborts in the sim about a thousand times, but nobody wanted to be the first to field-test the procedure.

Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

And they're now waiting for the next calls, which would a negative return call, which means they're through the RTLS capability.

CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005 2005

A two-engine-down RTLS abort was survivable—but only theoretically.

Gravity Tess Gerritsen 1999