NASA Tests Load Limits for Ares I Rocket Main Parachute
Friday, October 9, 2009 - 06:42
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares I is the first rocket in NASA's Constellation Program which will launch explorers on journeys to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond.