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Spaceflight safety testing continued recently
as Boeing began splash-tests for the CST-100

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Starliner at NASA's Langley Research Center
in Hampton, Virginia.

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Although designed to parachute back to land,
the Starliner is also built to handle a water

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landing in the unlikely event of an off-nominal
occurrence such as a launch emergency.

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SpaceX also recently tested four main parachutes
like the ones that will be used to safely

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land SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.

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The test used a mass simulator as the weight
of the spacecraft connected to the parachutes..

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The testing is the latest in the effort by
NASA's Commercial Crew Program and partners

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Boeing and SpaceX to build and operate a new
generation of human-rated spacecraft and launch

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systems to take astronauts to the International
Space Station.

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Engineers with Commercial Crew and within
the aerospace industry use extensive testing

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alongside intense analysis to prove that systems,
spacecraft and rockets will perform correctly

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during a mission.

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The testing isn't limited to machinery, either.

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The astronauts who will fly the missions have
been deeply involved in the test programs.

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Commercial Crew astronaut Suni Williams joined
Air Force pararescuemen at Langley to rehearse

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the processes and expected scenarios to pull
astronauts from the spacecraft.