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NASA: Orion spacecraft completes high-altitude test (VIDEO)
Houston, USA - The capsule was dropped at more than 10,000 metres
The american space agency NASA performed a complicated, high-altitude test, which demonstrated that the new Orion spacecraft could land safely even if one of its parachutes failed. The 10th in a series of evaluations to check out the Orion multipurpose crew vehicle's parachute system dropped the test capsule from a C-17 aircraft at its highest altitude yet, 35,000 feet (more than 10,000 metres)above...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency