NASA Completes Successful Orion Parachute Test
A C-17 plane dropped a test version of Orion from an altitude of 25,000 feet above the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona on July 18, 2012. This test was the second to use an Orion craft that mimics the full size and shape of the spacecraft.
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Orion: Parachutes
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Astronaut’s-Eye View of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Re-entry
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NASA Astronauts Train for Walking on Lunar Surface
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Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
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How To Fly Orion
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Test Version of Orion is Dropped C-17
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Station Tour: Zarya and Zvezda
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Science off the Sphere: Spring Theory
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Orion Pad Abort-1 Launch Abort System Flight Test
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Tour the International Space Station: 25 Years of Humans in Space
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Orion: Trial By Fire
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Station Tour: Harmony, Tranquility, Unity
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NASA Tests Orion Spacecraft Parachute Jettison Over Arizona
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Space Shuttle Launch and Landing Highlights
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Textron Team Readies Orion Heat Shield for Shipment to Kennedy Space Center
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Action Cam Footage From U.S. Spacewalk #30
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Life on Station
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Atlantis' Acrobats: One backflip and a dock to ISS
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Constellation: Flight Tests
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