Earlier this year, in the skies of Eloy, Arizona, engineers tested sub-scale parachutes for NASA's #Orion spacecraft to help improve the safety and reliability of the Orion's landing by investigating ways to make its main parachutes more aerodynamically stable while maintaining drag performance, all in preparation for its next mission, Exploration Mission-1. This testing is vital to future human spaceflight missions conducted by our commercial industry partners in low-Earth orbit, and also for NASA deep space missions moving into the proving ground and onward toward the Red Planet. Credit: NASA #NASA #progress #parachute #testing #engineering #spaceflight #Yuma #Arizona #blueskies #redwhiteblue #MadeInUSA #ProvingGround #JourneyToMars