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NASA's Orion Spaceship Passes Parachute Test

Posted by samzenpus on from the first-step dept.

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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  1. Ahh man by Greyfox · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Ahh man by Megaport · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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  2. I really wish they named the ship something else by Crashmarik · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every time I see Orion mentioned, I get my hopes up about nuclear powered interstellar craft.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

  3. Not the first test, first test failed.... by caffiend666 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not the first test. First test failed five years ago.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVl6lCr1vCo Have been other successful tests since then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMGTsGe4Nds . Nowhere does the article describe these as the first tests....

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