The spacecraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a parachute failure, ending a bold experiment in space biology and ...

On June 8, 1921, the first cabin pressurization test flight took place at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio-paving the way for high-altitude aviation and the comfort of modern air travel.

The aim is for the experiment to take measurements regarding weak gravitational lensing of galaxy clusters, ... Each DRS system contained a parachute and 5 terabytes of solid-state data storage.