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This year , Arnold Engineering

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Development Complex celebrates 75 years

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of American innovation . An early

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goal of the American space program was

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to be able to retrieve a manned capsule

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in support of the Mercury missions .

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Arnold engineers tested the designs of

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these capsules along with a new type of

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parachute that could withstand the

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rigors of atmospheric reentry . Make

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plans to come celebrate the

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seventy-fifth anniversary of AEDC with

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us at the Arnold Air Force Base Open

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House on June 27th .