00:00Three initial parachutes, known as forward bay cover parachutes, followed by two drove
00:05parachutes for stabilization.
00:07Then two groups of three main parachutes each followed.
00:11Orion slowed down from 40,000 to 27 kilometers per hour.
00:19Howard Hugh, the Orion program manager, later said that this was his personal wow moment.
00:25He said he was sitting alone in front of his screen shouting,
00:28go, go, go, when the main parachutes opened.
00:31And then the splashdown.
00:32The recovery crews from the US Navy and NASA were waiting for the crew in the water.
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