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DescriptionLanding-skirt.jpg	English: Mercury spacecraft landing bag. A skirt with holes is filled with air when the heatshield is dropped down just before impact. At impact, air is led out slowly through the holes and softening the landing
Date	1961
Source	http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4001/p2b.htm
Author	NASA

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	12:15, 20 August 2013	500 × 281 (75 KB)	Soerfm	Crop
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	00:48, 20 August 2013	500 × 292 (75 KB)	Soerfm	Space
	17:43, 17 June 2013	400 × 292 (75 KB)	Soerfm	Color
	23:58, 16 June 2013	400 × 292 (34 KB)	Soerfm	Contrast
	16:14, 8 October 2011	400 × 292 (27 KB)	Soerfm

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