X-38 aircraft being examined by technicians after landing on a dry lakebed. The parafoil parachute in the foreground steered the X-38 after it was released from a US Air Force B-52 bomber. This unpiloted aircraft is part of an effort to build a Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station (ISS). If there was an emergency on the ISS,the CRV would glide through the atmosph- ere before deploying a parachute to slow itself,followed by its steerable parachute. The X-38 was released at a height of almost 12km,flying for 44 seconds before its first parachute opened. This test flight was at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in California,USA,on 30 March 2000 | |
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