A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends under its three main parachutes above the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona in the agency’s most difficult test of the parachutes system’s performance on June 25.
A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends under its three main parachutes above the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona in the agency’s most difficult test of the parachutes system’s performance on June 25. NASA is preparing Orion for its first trip to space in December, a two-hour, four-orbit flight that will send an uncrewed spacecraft more than 3,600 miles into space before returning it to Earth to test the performance of many of the spacecraft’s critical systems needed to carry crew to deep space destinations in the future.
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