NASA Tests Three-Parachute Ares I Recovery System

Credit: U.S. ARMY PROVING GROUND
The largest rocket parachutes ever fabricated worked as planned in this drop test May 20 at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, demonstrating that the three-chute package probably will be able to ease the first stage of NASA’s Ares I crew exploration vehicle back into the ocean for reuse...

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