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Preparing for final drop test in Yuma
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The Orion team prepares the parachute test vehicle for the final drop test which will qualify Orion's parachutes for human flight on Sept. 10, 2018...On September 12, 2018 an Orion test capsule will be dropped from a C-17 aircraft at an altitude of more than six miles to verify the spacecraft’s complex system of 11 parachutes, cannon-like mortars, and pyrotechnic devices work in sequence to slow the capsule’s descent for a safe landing on Earth.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit linePreparing for final drop test in Yuma. NASA/JSC, 2022-05-10. Public domain. ID: jsc2022e045535.
