# SpaceX Tests Crew Dragon Parachutes

SpaceX performed a successful test of its parachute system for the Crew Dragon spacecraft near Coolidge, Arizona, as part of its final development and certification work with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Using a weight simulant in the place of a boilerplate spacecraft, four main parachutes were rigged to deploy just as they would when the Crew Dragon returns to Earth with astronauts aboard. Initially, the spacecraft will splash down safely in the ocean under parachutes, but ultimately the company wants to land the vehicle on land using eight SuperDraco engines.

SpaceX recently tested to propulsive land landing ability in Texas.

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 2016
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASAKennedy
- Genres: Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SpaceX_Tests_Crew_Dragon_Parachutes.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASAKennedy
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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