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NASA's Orion Mock-Up Fails Parachute Test

Posted by timothy on from the perhaps-skydiving-is-not-for-you dept.

leetrout writes "Fox News has the story on a parachute test failing on a mock up of the new Orion spacecraft. 'This is the most complicated parachute test NASA has run since the '60s,' said Carol Evans, test manager for the parachute system at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. 'We are taking a close look at what caused the set-up chutes to malfunction. A failure of set-up parachutes is actually one of the most common occurrences in this sort of test.' Space.com has the video."

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  1. Fox News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure this story is about as creditable as you can throw it based on the source.

    1. Re:Fox News by Jock+Kodimar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Better than CNN.