posted 11-09-2021 10:08 AM               

quote:

---

Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
...they had seen this type of delayed unfurling of one parachute during earlier tests

---

posted 11-09-2021 10:24 AM               

As mentioned, we should learn more later today. In the meantime, here is what Lueders said about last night's landing:

It is behavior we've seen multiple times in other tests, and it usually happens when the lines kind of bunch up together until the aero forces kind of open up and spread the chutes. The thing that makes me feel a little bit more confident is that the loading and the deceleration of the spacecraft all looked nominal.

posted 11-09-2021 11:00 PM               

We did have the one parachute that was a little slow to deploy and we looked at that in detail and video. Also, we looked at in detail the acceleration data from the vehicle. It performed essentially the way it was designed to perform, we can land with three parachutes if we have to.

This is potentially a known condition that can occur with the four parachutes. One of the four parachutes can be a little slow to deploy. This one was a little bit slow, it deployed about 75 seconds late. But again, all within the design criteria.

We were actually able to get the parachute out of the water, actually have it on a helicopter, fly it back to the Cape, actually hang it off of a crane in a building at the Cape and actually go ahead and inspect it with a NASA team and the SpaceX team to make sure that there was nothing in that parachute that we didn't understand.

So, you know each one of these flights is really a gift for us. We're still learning how to operate these vehicles, learning how to fly in space. And the way you do that safely is you keep looking at the data and you learn from each and every flight.

So we looked at this, we don't see anything that's off nominal that concerns us from a parachute standpoint. We also talked to the parachute vendor to make sure that they were comfortable with where we're going. We pulled up build records from the the assembly of these parachutes that went into Crew-2. We're pulling up both build records for Crew-3 to make sure there's nothing there but again, we've done an extremely thorough review, everything looks like we're in a good place to go fly tomorrow.