Dropped from a maximum height of 3.5 km, drogue chutes deploy to help slow ... engineering and software behind this novel spacecraft. Thales Alenia Space is the industrial lead for the tests ...

The glow appeared suddenly. A tiny spot at first, it gradually grew to a round circle falling at a great speed from the fringes of space. It was NASA’s Orion capsule, which would soon end the 25 ...

And when he said that, there was a lot of laughter, because space was something ... out of the capsule, it only ran two and a half seconds before it opened. The drogue chute came out and lacking ...

"It’s a very tight space, a very cramped space ... "So we have to have a braking chute come out first, then three chute drogues before the main canopy opens. "The whole process of slowing ...

A drogue parachute is a smaller parachute deployed ... Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore Remain in Space The Boeing spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore ...