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I don’t know if you saw the splashdown when the astronauts were brought back to earth but the parachutes were incredibly beautiful — truly modern art — others have noticed. Look at this: those parachutes were DESIGNED AT STANFORD!!
From the #1 presidential speechwriter, now writing for The WSJ:
The SpaceX return of astronauts after nine months at the International Space Station was both a humanitarian achievement and a technological marvel. It was also a design marvel.
The capsule, the uniforms—and here I must have a happiness freak-out about the parachutes that eased the capsule down.
They were gorgeous as physical objects and beautifully designed, like high art, like a Christo installation, with their red and white and deep-hued, elegant markings to enhance visibility.
At certain points before and during splashdown they moved like huge jellyfish in the sea. They were made with new stitching method and with a specialized polymer called Zylon, developed by researchers at Stanford.
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