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NASA engineers conducted another successful airdrop test this week of Orion space capsule parachutes at Yuma Proving Ground. This time, instead of using a test object that looks like the capsule that NASA hopes will eventually take astronauts into space, scientists dropped a missile-shaped object known as the Parachute Compartment Drop Test Vehicle (PCDTV). .
The NASA Parachute Compartment Drop Test Vehicle (PCDTV), which resembles a giant dart, is carefully lifted by crane from a flat bed truck outside of the Pappy Boyington Hanger at the Yuma International Airport Defense Contractor Complex Wednesday morning. The PCDTV made a successful test drop at Yuma Proving Ground Tuesday morning and will be disassembled and stored until the next sometime in 2013.
PHOTO BY CRAIG FRY/YUMA SUN
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