Requirements of system which must be capable of functioning under variety of eventualities, including normal and aborted missions; guidelines employed in selection of earth-landing systems for Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Command Module spacecrafts; development and qualification programs of Mercury spacecraft landing system, including conical, ribbon, drogue parachute, ringsail main and reserve parachutes, impact skirt attenuation system, and deployment methods are described; summary of parachute performance obtained from test programs and results of performance of landing system for 5 manned Mercury flights.


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    Title :

    Earth-landing systems for manned spacecraft


    Additional title:

    AGARD -- Report


    Contributors:
    Kiker, J.W. (author) / Lee, J.B. (author) / Hinson, J.K. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1963


    Size :

    43 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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