Falling From Space: Chutes for Apollo, Orion, Dragon, Mars — and the Stratosphere

1968-2012 — Splashdown canopies the Navy hauls aboard carrier decks, NASA's rocket-sled supersonic tests, the 100-foot Mars parachute, Dragon's nine, and the thin blue morning Felix Baumgartner fell through.

Playlist by @parachute_history

13 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Testing a Parachute for Mars — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  2. NASA’s Mars 2020 Supersonic Parachute: Test Flight #1 — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  3. Largest Parachute to One Day Fly on Mars Tested on Earth — VideoFromSpace
  4. Mars Descent Parachute Rips In Rocket Sled Test | Video — VideoFromSpace
  5. LDSD: We Brake for Mars (Part 1) — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  6. The most complex Orion chute test, yet — NASA
  7. Crew Dragon | Parachute Tests — SpaceX
  8. NASA Engineer Explains: SpaceX Crew Dragon Parachutes — Trial By Air
  9. Project Apollo : Last Five Miles Home — spaceaholic
  10. Apollo 11 Splashdown footage highlighting Navy Frogmen's role — John Wolfram
  11. Apollo 15 Splashdown — Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
  12. Felix Baumgartner's supersonic freefall from 128k' - Mission Highlights — Red Bull
  13. I Jumped From Space (World Record Supersonic Freefall) — Red Bull