NASA Tests Load Limits for Ares I Rocket Main Parachute

NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares I is the first rocket in NASA's Constellation Program which will launch explorers on journeys to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond.Engineers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.,