parachute
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Jared Daum, the parachute system manager for Artemis II, explains how it will work in comments to AFP that have been lightly edited for clarity.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
“Support for the golden parachute proposal is not warranted.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
“We must parachute into Europe,” she wrote before setting out, “like a mother breaking into a burning house to rescue her children.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Astronauts can’t parachute to the surface, or climb down a rope ladder, or just beam themselves down from the Transporter Room.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026
French rockets go up, which unfold a silk parachute to the air and drift slowly down.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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