India News: Isro plans to air-drop test for Gaganyaan, India’s first human spaceflight, with S Somanath. Uncrewed missions before manned mission next year. 400 km
With Gaganyaan in the works, ISRO and NASA aim to send Indian astronaut to ISS in 2024- The New Indian Express newindianexpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newindianexpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
for mars. nasa has tested the parachute system for the new orion space capsule which the agency reports will eventually carry a crew to the red planet. i guess if we find the money. casey stegall is in houma, arizona. how did the test go? it went off without a hitch. this is the fifth air drop test out of 18 total that will be conducted. here is how it works. they basically release a hockey rye onspace capsules from the back of a c-17 military cargo jet and then deploy the chutes. but it s not even close to how fast this thing will descend when it returns from a space mission one day. the shuttle came back at 17,500 miles an hour. this will come back at more than 20,000 miles an hour. so we really have to make sure the heat shield does work the way it s intended to be. to test that, it will be launched into space in two years. 2014. it will be unmanned at that time so they can see how the spacecraft fairs when it