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February 18, 2004

Four emergency landing contingencies are planned and tested by NASA.
Mode V is a landing mishap on or near the runway where the shuttle crew escapes the orbiter unaided or with help from the rescue crew.
Mode VI emergency test is a simulated crash of the Shuttle in a remote area that is accessible to emergency crews by land.
Mode VII is a landing mishap where rescuers can't reach the shuttle by land and, instead, have to be lowered from helicopters.
Mode VIII is an ocean bailout exercise.

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