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Tag Archives: Paraglider
The Gemini Paraglider on SciAm’s Space Lab
Most regular readers of Vintage Space will know that I’m obsessed with the Gemini Paraglider, the landing system that should have made splashdowns obsolete starting in the early 1960s but (to make a long story short) just couldn’t keep pace … Continue reading
Posted in Gemini, History of Space Science, Manned Spaceflight, Mercury
Tagged Gemini, Landing Systems, Landings, Paraglider, Rogallo
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Another Use for Rogallo: Saturn Recovery
Regular readers are doubtless aware that I love the Rogallo paraglider wing. NASA had had no shortage of uses for this triangular, two-lobed sail design in the 1960s. It was the system that should have landed the Gemini spacecraft on … Continue reading
Posted in Apollo, Gemini, History of Space Science, Manned Spaceflight, Mercury
Tagged 1961, Apollo, Booster Recovery, Gemini, Mercury, NASA, Paraglider, Rogallo, Rogallo Paraglider, S-IC Stage, Saturn Booster
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