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.
Earth-landing systems for manned spacecraft
AGARD -- Report
1963
43 pages
Report
English
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