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 ...

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 ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history ... At an altitude of roughly 15,000 meters the 2.4 meter drogue ...

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 ...