A test of the spacecraft due to replace the shuttle and take humans back to the moon has crashed after its landing parachutes failed. Linky with video!
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Originally posted by CamTo me this seems like a step backwards. I thought they were looking at getting into space easier? Making a system like the old Apollo rockets and capsules seems like an interim solution and not a real advancement.
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Am I interpreting the video correctly; was this a triple failure? ( primary chutes failed, secondary chutes failed, and last resort chutes failed? ) (Or was that secondary set a pair of drogue chutes?)
At least the tests discovered the problem before it resulted in deaths and mission failures. So in one respect the test was a failure but in another it was a success.
I think this also demonstrates that computers are not always as good at working out the bugs then a field test.
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