NASA Demonstrates Orion Recovery System
Credit: NASA
A simulator for NASA’s four-person Orion/Multipurpose Crew Vehicle has passed the eighth in a series of airborne drop tests, descending intact to the Arizona desert with one of three 116-ft.-wide nylon main parachutes intentionally disabled. The 21,000-lb. mock capsule was released Feb. 11 from a U...
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