To an astronaut, getting back to earth is just as important as leaving it for outer space. The safe return also is a major concern of Uncle Sam, who doesn’t intent to blast a man into orbit until a ...

[Apollo 17] THE LAST SPACECRAFT TO RETURN FROM ANOTHER WORLD: CSM America parachutes into the Pacific, triumphantly concluding Apollo (NASA's own copy, used and annotated, for the preparation of its ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The live television broadcast showed that one of the three parachutes on the Apollo 15 capsule had failed to deploy properly. “Standby for a hard impact,” someone on the aircraft ...

A small team (Appendix 1) was chartered by NASA to make a top-level assessment of the viability of using the Apollo Command and Service Modules the basis for a Crew Return Vehicle, and potentially for ...

In a non-binding vote, nearly three out of four Tech Data stockholders opposed paying millions to executives if they’re terminated after Apollo Global Management buys the company. Chief executive ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the fact that Boeing has done more testing on its Starliner parachutes than the two “development tests” originally cited. Next year when SpaceX’s ...

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