NASA Tests New Parachutes for Ares Spacecraft

This has been an exciting week for NASA’s Constellation program – the missions that will bring humans back to the moon. Earlier in the week, NASA announced plans for testing abort systems and inflatable moon habitats.

But on Thursday, November 15 actual tests were conducted for some of the genuine hardware that will be used for the Ares launch vehicles.
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