--- description: The video, posted Friday, shows point-of-view footage of SpaceX's May 6 pad abort test of its Crew Dragon vehicle. title: Watch What It's Like to Get Blasted to 100MPH in 1.2 Seconds image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt010a7cb5d970fe22/6988516a524fc06a23df2c67/494548551.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch What It's Like to Get Blasted to 100MPH in 1.2 Seconds by [Benjamin Snyder / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Benjamin Snyder / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 22, 2015 6:28 PM CUT  SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils the company's new manned spacecraft, The Dragon V2, designed to carry astronauts into space during a news conference on May 29, 2014, in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils the company's new manned spacecraft, The Dragon V2, designed to carry astronauts into space during a news conference on May 29, 2014, in Hawthorne, California.Kevork Djansezian—Getty Images by [Benjamin Snyder / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Benjamin Snyder / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 22, 2015 6:28 PM CUT If you ever wondered what it’s like to get blasted off a launch pad going at 100 miles per hour, this SpaceX video does the trick. The video, posted Friday, shows point-of-view footage of SpaceX’s May 6 pad abort test of its Crew Dragon vehicle. Essentially, the private space company, headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, was testing a system that could safely eject astronauts aboard a just-launched rocket should anything go wrong. The Dragon vehicle reached 100mph in 1.2 seconds, before topping out at a peak velocity of 345mph. “The successful Pad Abort Test was the first flight test of SpaceX’s revolutionary launch abort system, and the data captured here will be critical in preparing Crew Dragon for its first human missions in 2017,” [SpaceX](http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/05/06/crew-dragon-completes-pad-abort-test "undefined") wrote following the successful test. In March, SpaceX [launched](http://fortune.com/2015/03/02/spacex-rocket-blasts-off-with-worlds-first-all-electric-satellites/ "undefined") the world’s first completely electric satellites into space. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3894768/spacex-pad-abort-test/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3894768/spacex-pad-abort-test/"},"headline":"Watch What It's Like to Get Blasted to 100MPH in 1.2 Seconds","datePublished":"2015-05-22T18:28:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:05:28.031Z","description":"We'd almost definitely vomit","url":"https://time.com/3894768/spacex-pad-abort-test/","keywords":["Tech","Travel","Tesla","Space Exploration","SpaceX","innovations"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt010a7cb5d970fe22/6988516a524fc06a23df2c67/494548551.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Benjamin Snyder / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt010a7cb5d970fe22/6988516a524fc06a23df2c67/494548551.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Unveils Company's New Manned Spacecraft, The Dragon V2","caption":"SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Unveils Company's New Manned Spacecraft, The Dragon V2","creditText":"Kevork Djansezian—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3894768/spacex-pad-abort-test/","name":"Watch What It's Like to Get Blasted to 100MPH in 1.2 Seconds"}}]}] ```