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发帖数: 1233 | 1 By SPACE.com Staff
posted: 21 August 2008
05:32 pm ET
A mock-up of NASA's Orion space shuttle successor twisted, tumbled and fell
from thousands of feet up after a parachute failed to inflate properly
during a July 31 test.
The programmer chute was designed to stabilize the mock-up before beginning
a test of its parachute recovery system, but instead sent the capsule
careening toward the desert floor at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in
Arizona.
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