Budding astronauts, avert your eyes. NASA has posted photos of a failed test landing (read: crash) of a mock-up of the Orion crew exploration vehicle, part of the Constellation program to replace the shuttle in 2015. [More]
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leetrout writes “Fox News has the story on a parachute test failing on a mock up of the new Orion spacecraft. ‘This is the most complicated parachute test NASA has run since the ’60s,’ said Carol Evans, test manager for the parachute system at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. ‘We are taking a close look at what caused the set-up chutes to malfunction. A failure of set-up parachutes is …
Yep, They’re Gonna NEED To Fix This A preliminary test of the parachute system designed to softly return NASA’s upcoming Crew Exploration Vehicle to Earth failed in spectacular fashion last month, resulting in an Orion-sized dent in the Arizona desert landscape.
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From NASA reports A test set-up parachute failed during the July 31 test of parachutes for the recovery system for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. NASA released photos of the crash on Tuesday.
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