NASA's Orion Spaceship Passes Parachute Test

An anonymous reader writes The spacecraft it is hoped will take man to Mars has passed its first parachute tests. Nasa's Orion spacecraft landed gently using its parachutes after being shoved out of a military jet at 35,000 feet. "We've put the parachutes through their paces in ground and airdrop testing in just about every conceivable way before we begin sending them into space on Exploration Flight Test (EFT)-1 before the year's done," Orion program manager Mark Geyer said in a NASA statement. "The series of tests has proven the system and will help ensure crew and mission safety for our astronauts in the future."

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Ahh man

[Greyfox]

Now I'm going to have to go build a military jet in Kerbal Space Program and push a capsule with parachutes out of it.

Re:Ahh man

[Megaport]

With the demo, I made a rocket that orbited the Mun and returned to Kerbin for a safe landing.

I had to put the damn game down and walk away...

Yep. Same story here, except I managed an entire manned (Kerbaled?) Duna sample return mission before walking away.

My marriage only just survived.

--M