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NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance engineers
timed an MRAP armored vehicle as it traveled

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from different points at Space Launch Complex
41.

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The goal: To find out how long it would take
for astronauts and ground crews to evacuate

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the launch pad in an emergency.

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The analysis is part of an ongoing development
for the certification of the CST-100 capsule,

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Atlas V rocket and ground systems for Commercial
Crew flights to the International Space Station.

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You can crunch numbers all day long but it
doesn't mean anything until you actually measure

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it.

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This will feed into all of our calculations
for getting the crew and the ground crew off

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the pad.

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The MRAP is much more robust than the M113
vehicles used during the space shuttle era.

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Its faster, bigger, and more versatile.

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Once the CST-100 crew access tower is completed
at the pad, teams will perform more testing

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with astronauts.

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The most surprising thing about today was
that it was a lot easier than we thought.

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It performed a lot better than we thought,
it was a lot more comfortable than we expected.

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Bought by NASA's Ground Systems Development
and Operations Program, the MRAPs are to be