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NASA told to get act together on commercial crew vendors as chance of US-free ISS rises

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Faulty Parachute Models

To be fair, SpaceX's testing revealed that the parachute modeling NASA used for previous missions was, in fact, faulty and had to be re-modeled. SpaceX chose to use newer material (Zylon?) as well to handle the stress of the chute opening sequence. Lessons learned and all that.

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