NASA completes one more splashdown trial on Mars-bound Orion spacecraft
NASA today hurled into a pool a counterfeit up of their Orion rocket with two accident test shams sitting inside to recreate an arrival to-Earth splashdown situation. The test endured all of around 10 seconds and is the ninth trial of a 10-section water sway arrangement NASA started directing in April. In present test, Orion was swung like a pendulum to recreate a situation where one of its parachutes had neglected to send. Following a few moments of swinging, Orion was dropped into the 20-foot-profound Hydro Impact Basin, an open…
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