Orion Engineering Development Unit Air Drop Test
April 10, 2012
Performed on Feb. 29, 2012 at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds, this is the third in a series of the most flight-like parachute tests to date with a representative parachute compartment for the Orion spacecraft. It is the first such test to use a capsule shape representing Orion, known as a Parachute Test Vehicle. credit: NASA
Topics:
Manned spacecraft, Human spaceflight, Project Constellation, Proposed Constellation missions, Boilerplate, Parachute, NASA, Yuma Proving Ground, Orion
