NASA: Dragon SpaceX, comm check. Abby Tang: So if anything went wrong in that moment, remote control would have been impossible. In 2019, auditor's listed parachute problems as a key risk to NASA ...
The test was meant to examine what would happen if one parachute didn't deploy during a flight. SpaceX tried to simulate the situation, leaving only three parachutes to break the fall ...
The parachute test SpaceX conducted in April was not the first for Crew Dragon; many other tests have proceeded without issue. But in this case, Gerstenmaier explained during the hearing ...