The X-38 prototype of the Crew Return Vehicle is suspended under its giant 7,500-square-foot parafoil during its eighth free flight on Thursday, December 13, 2001
The X-38 prototype of the Crew Return Vehicle for the International Space Station is suspended under its giant 7,500-square-foot parafoil during its eighth free flight on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001. A portion of the descent was flown by remote control by a NASA astronaut from a ground vehicle configured like the CRV's interior before the X-38 made an autonomous landing on Rogers Dry Lake.
- Date
- 2001-12-13
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Tony Landis
- Collection
- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"The X-38 prototype of the Crew Return Vehicle is suspended under its giant 7,500-square-foot parafoil during its eighth free flight on Thursday, December 13, 2001" (2001-12-13). NASA/AFRC/NASA/Tony Landis. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/EC01-0339-77Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 20930.
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