The week was filled with classroom instruction on how a parachute works, parachute landing falls, and emergency procedures while suspended in a harness.

She was received by friends; but made an unlucky parachute landing, and took some weeks to recover her health.

Experienced jumpers can deploy a parachute landing fall naturally during an accidental fall; this has reduced or prevented injuries.

A normal parachute landing might have damaged the delicate samples, so the mission design called for a mid-air retrieval of the sample return capsule.

They marched for days through the desert with minimal food and water, and prepared for parachute landings by leaping out of the back of a speeding truck.