A California couple and their 2-year-old child survived a plane crash after they deployed a parachute to slow the small aircraft’s downward spiral into a wooded, mountainous area, officials said.

Unfortunately, the other parachutes didn't properly deploy either. The test didn't use an actual space capsule - the parachutes were tested on a metal sled, which was damaged. Gerstenmaier told ...

The capsule’s drogue parachutes deployed at the altitude ... NASA stopped crewed flights in 2011 after the Space Shuttle program came to an end. Subsequently, all astronauts were delivered ...