Two parachutes out of three ain’t bad for NASA’s Orion spacecraft
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The Orion parachute test on February 12, 2013 (Photo: NASA)
The Orion parachute test on February 12, 2013 (Photo: NASA)
The Orion parachute test on February 12, 2013 (Photo: NASA)
Apollo 15 returning to Earth August 7, 1971 (Photo: NASA)
Artist's concept of the Orion spacecraft (Image: NASA)
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A test version of NASA’s Orion space capsule made a parachute drop near Yuma Arizona on Tuesday with only two of its three parachutes working. Dropped from a Hercules transport from an altitude of 25,000 feet (7,620 m), it wasn't an accident, but a deliberate nobbling of one of the chutes by NASA engineers to prove the capsule could safely return to Earth in the event of such a failure.
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