NASA's Orion Launch Abort Parachute System Test Fails

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NASA tested the parachutes for the recovery system on its Orion crew exploration vehicle above the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona on July 31. The test proved unsuccessful when a test set-up parachute failed.

The failed parachute -- called a programmer chute -- deployed, but it did not inflate properly and failed to get the test article that simulated the Orion crew module into the correct orientation, altitude and speed for the test, causing the parachute system for the test vehicle to fail.

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  • mmmm VERY STANGE.. It worked PERFECTLY in the ANIMATED MOVIE VERSION :)

  • Did all the German scientists die off?

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  • Need Another Seven Astronauts

  • another gajillion dollars well spent

  • Suxage

    Its ok we have a reserve chute..........

    damn that did not work either but still we have a second reserve chute just in case.....

    Damn!!!!.

  • Great vintage NASA footage. Thanks!

  • obviously the outer connecter strings are to short, next time they should legthen them 0.o

  • This is why we need a craft that lands nice and smooth on a runway like the current shuttle does.

  • Maybe going to the moon is harder than the movie ???

    Can't wait till they strap the new GM lunar rover on that baby!

    Casting call !! Casting call!! ....

  • I think the shape of the capsule is a fail.

    look how it tumbles! -not like apollo or mercury -self stabilizing shapes.

    Id saY add a retrorocket like Soyuz and a nice set of air bags!

  • six durd astrodauts

    six ddeed asronuts

    sex dead assponuts...

    iunno =p

  • Grrrrrrrr,

    theres always bumps ina road... then is smooths out eventually.

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