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Paraglider, NASA history collection

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James R. Hansen wrote: "In December 1961, Langley flight-tested a 50-foot parawing's ability to bring down safely a model of a manned space capsule from a few thousand feet above Plum Tree Island, an old army bombing range near Langley Field.

NASA Identifier: L61-8041

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