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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Manned Spaceflight _ Orion Parachute test

Posted by: alan Aug 21 2008, 04:40 AM

that went well
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/pa_chute_test.html

Posted by: dvandorn Aug 21 2008, 04:48 AM

NOT!

-the other Doug

Posted by: djellison Aug 21 2008, 07:19 AM

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.

Posted by: ilbasso Aug 21 2008, 06:25 PM

This is why I'm not so eager to go skydiving.

Posted by: AndyG Aug 22 2008, 08:17 AM

You'd be fine until the last few centimetres.

Andy

Posted by: djellison Aug 22 2008, 09:43 AM

Cross your legs, put out your arms. Then they can unscrew you from the ground afterwards.

Posted by: Pertinax Aug 22 2008, 12:37 PM

Odd, I never though of a coffee cup looking like an Orion capsule before....

Please pardon my askew humor.

-- Pertinax

Posted by: PDP8E Aug 22 2008, 03:29 PM

That was the most painful engineering film I have seen in ages ......YIKES!

Posted by: ilbasso Aug 22 2008, 06:38 PM

"Every failure moves us forward..." yada yada yada! At least it was an entertaining show.