NASA Aerial Photographer Completes 1,000th Flight

The Orion parachute system enters another phase of its descent after an air launch from a C-17 aircraft on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Photographers and videographers from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston documented a test version of the Orion during Capsule Parachute Assembly System project tests at the U.S. Army Proving Ground, near Yuma, Arizona.

The Orion parachute system enters another phase of its descent after an air launch from a C-17 aircraft on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Photographers and videographers from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston documented a test version of the Orion during Capsule Parachute Assembly System project tests at the U.S. Army Proving Ground, near Yuma, Arizona.

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