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a series of 11 parachutes will be

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deployed in sequential fashion a very

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dramatic return to Earth lying ahead for

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the Orion spacecraft our design is

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almost exactly the Apollo design the the

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shape of the mains the shape of the

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drugs the only major difference is we

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are bigger Apollo weighed roughly 13 000

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13 500 pounds and we weigh 22 and change

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a thousand pounds and so our parachutes

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are larger because we have more energy

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to take out of the system and our

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parachutes are stronger

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so at a fundamental level all around

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parachutes are alike the Orion system

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has drogue parachutes that is initially

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decelerate the system and because

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they're deployed at a much higher

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velocity they're made of ribbons the

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ribbons can take the fluttering

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Associated of high velocity deployments

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much better than a solid canopy can and

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once the system slows down it deploys

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domains the mains are much closer to a

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Personnel shoot they're called ring

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sales the major difference would be that

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a Personnel shoot could be 28 to 30 feet

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in diameter and a sea pass main is 116

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feet in diameter City Orion parachutes

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are what we refer to as hybrid

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parachutes the drag surfaces are nylon

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but then the structural grid how we take

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the drag on that nylon surface and

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transmit it down to the vehicle is made

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of Kevlar and Kevlar is quite a bit

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stronger and stiffer and it just

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completely different material than the

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drag surfaces are so the C pass system

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is designed to safely recover the crew

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with just two Mains deployed

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the problem with deploying the backup

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shoot after you deploy the first two

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shoots is you have to negotiate the

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shoot that's already out there so what

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we chose to do and what Apollo chose to

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do was to deploy the backup shoot with

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the main system itself and as a result

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we get a much softer Landing when all

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the parachutes work properly but both

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systems were designed to land with just

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two main parachutes functioning

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when we did the pad abort test at White

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Sands I was quite scared but I wasn't

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scared for our system I was scared for

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the repositioning after the Rockets took

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off the capsule and repositioned it it

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was perfect that thing reoriented like

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it was on Rails and I I swear to you

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this this huge relief came over me when

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the cover came off because I thought wow

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we're not done but we're done I know my