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Paragliding reentry capsules 44-years ago this month

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Credit: NASA

According to the 13 August 1964 issue of Flight International NASA test pilot E. P. Hetzel is trying out the paraglider system of spacecraft recovery, then under consideration for Project Gemini flights, in this photo

It is the first manned test of the recovery system at what became NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California

More such reports about the development of American, and Soviet, manned spaceflight systems can be found in the Flight archive, a completely free to access archive of every issue ever published since Flight's inception in 1909

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a simpler, smaller, lighter, safer, cheaper, more modern and more accurate version of this old Gemini's paraglider system could be MY lake-landing (or runway-landing, just adding four small wheels) electric-motors-driven propellers Orion:

http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/030orionlakelanding.html

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