NASA Orion drop test - GIF

NASA personnel drop testing a test version of the Orion spacecraft at NASA's Langley Research Center's Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...015#post164552
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...859#post163943
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...209#post145892
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...433#post185476
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...246#post184870

Don't open the hatch Gus

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Originally Posted by Frank S

Don't open the hatch Gus

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I get the reference to Gus and, fortunately for him, he was fully exonerated when his capsule was ultimately recovered and examined. Along with testimony from a witness in the recovery chopper, it was determined that when the chopper made contact with the capsule's antenna a static discharge ignited the mercury fulminate charge used to eject the hatch... prematurely in that instance.

I almost forgot. I'll bet there were some red faces and possibly pink slips following that Orion splash down test!