((WEBHED: NASA Tests Ares Parachutes Again))
NASA has again tested the main parachute for the Ares I and Ares V first-stage rockets, dropping them from an Air Force C-17 Nov. 15 over the Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. Derived from the chutes on the space shuttle’s solid-rocket boosters, they will let Ares boosters be recovered and...
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