Harness, parachute.

UE Parachute. We have to open a parachute just seconds before, I would say, impact.

Tom's parachute didn't open.

Video Okay, we have parachute aligned.

And you put on the T 10 parachute.

A parachute opens up to slow it down.

A parachute jump from the very edge of space.

You saw in the video a parachute breaking. That would be a bad day, you know, if that happened, so we have to test, because we are deploying this parachute at supersonic speeds.

And then a jumpmaster comes, and he's an experienced NCO in parachute operations.

And then you wait for the opening shock for your parachute to open.

EB If you fire the 'chute too early, the parachute itself could fail.

BG So the wings have their own parachute, and you have your two parachutes.

This artist's impression turned into reality when a parachute landed on Titan, Saturn's giant moon.

Richard Kornfeld There is this window of opportunity within which we can deploy the parachute.

Ten years ago, on a Tuesday morning, I conducted a parachute jump at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

EB Now the spacecraft actually has to decide when it's going to get rid of its parachute.

I've got, you know, this enormous balloon above me, it's the biggest parachute ever, why not use it?

If you don't get an opening shock, you don't get a parachute you've got a whole new problem set.

And then the landing, as we have seen, arriving on this side of the channel, is through a parachute.

To give you an idea of the size, you know, of that parachute relative to the people standing there.

So the balloon is being filled up with helium on the left hand side, and the fabric actually runs all the way to the middle where there's a piece of electronics and explosives being connected to a parachute, and then the parachute is then connected to the payload.

You do some routine refresher training, and then you go to put on your parachute and a buddy helps you.

I wanted it to go out of sight and then I wanted this little parachute to come back with the frog in it.

And you cannot do parachute reporting just jump into a country for two days and think that you've done your homework and a story.

The first thing you do is lock into a tight body position head down in your chest, your arms extended, put over your reserve parachute.

The hardest part of the mission is that the probe just has one chance before entering the Martian atmosphere for aerodynamic shape and parachute deceleration.

Some people watch this event because of a NASCAR like fascination with things bumping and grinding. Burning the parachute as it fell that was last weekend.

BC In the first 15 seconds after we deploy the parachute, we'll decelerate from 900 miles an hour to a relatively slow 250 miles an hour.

And what they have to do is they have to assemble the entire balloon the fabric, parachute and everything on the ice and then fill it up with helium.

YR Exactly. There is a rescue parachute for the wing for two reasons so I can repair it afterward and especially so nobody takes that, just on his head.

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