Orion’s Parachute System Notches Another Drop Test

by SpaceNewsJuly 23, 2012January 30, 2023

A test version of NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle was dropped from a C-17 plane July 18 above the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona.

NASA completed another drop test of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle’s parachutes July 18 in Arizona in preparation for the spacecraft’s orbital flight test in 2014.

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