Orion Parachute test |
Orion Parachute test |
Aug 21 2008, 04:40 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
that went well
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constell...chute_test.html |
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Aug 21 2008, 04:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
NOT!
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Aug 21 2008, 07:19 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Worth noting - it wasn't a failure of Orion's parachute system. It was a failure of one of the parachutes needed to set the drop up ready to deploy Orions parachutes in a flight analogous way.
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Aug 21 2008, 06:25 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
This is why I'm not so eager to go skydiving.
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Aug 22 2008, 08:17 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 593 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 279 |
You'd be fine until the last few centimetres.
Andy |
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Aug 22 2008, 09:43 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Cross your legs, put out your arms. Then they can unscrew you from the ground afterwards.
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Aug 22 2008, 12:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 198 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Richmond, VA USA Member No.: 181 |
Odd, I never though of a coffee cup looking like an Orion capsule before....
Please pardon my askew humor. -- Pertinax |
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Aug 22 2008, 03:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
That was the most painful engineering film I have seen in ages ......YIKES!
-------------------- CLA CLL
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Aug 22 2008, 06:38 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
"Every failure moves us forward..." yada yada yada! At least it was an entertaining show.
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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