# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc2UGjrFbK8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15344515-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/edefd80426.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-12-18T15:29:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

When NASA’s Orion spacecraft hurtles toward Earth’s surface during its return from deep-space missions, the capsule’s system of 11 parachutes will assemble itself in the air and slow the spacecraft from 300 mph to a relatively gentle 20 mph for splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in the span of about 10 minutes. As the astronauts inside descend toward the water on future missions, their lives will be hanging by a series of threads that have been thoroughly ruggedized, tested and validated to ensure the parachute-assisted end of Orion missions are a success. Learn more about our most recent test on nasa.gov/orion

Credit: U.S. Army

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spacesystems, parachute, pinksky, engineering, sonorandesert, nasa, usarmy, yuma, arizonadesert, testing, orion

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