SpaceX signed contract with NASA to start commercial spacecraft years ago and is now progressing towards its goal. Recently, NASA released a video showing a parachute system completing a landing test designed by SpaceX in completion of its final tests required by NASA’s commercial crew program (CCP).

Such four large parachutes will help the astronauts in landing in ocean in their way back from the International Space Station. Another video taken in November was released by SpaceX showing eight SuprerDraco Engines run Dragon 2 Crew Vehicle, which showed the possibility of a safe landing on soil.

The SpaceX expects its first mission to come alive by 2017, which would deploy both kinds of systems for assisting their first manned mission. The commercial crew program (CCP) under NASA has given recognition to various private companies that include Boeing as well as SpaceX. The crew dragon system used four large parachutes helping a weight similar to that of a crew dragon to land safely in ocean.

The parachutes were carried thousands of feet above ground on board a C-130 cargo aircraft. The parachute system was tested near Coolidge, Arizona. During the mission, this system will be used to land astronauts safely in ocean from international space station. “The mass simulator and parachutes were released thousands of feet above the ground from a C-130 cargo aircraft. This test evaluated the four main parachutes, but did not include the drogue chutes that a full landing system would utilize,” said NASA.

SpaceX is planning to make a system that would use SuperDraco Engines to assist crew on land as well. The company even released a short video showing propulsive hover test of dragon 2 crew vehicle using eight SuperDraco Engines to ensure a pinpointed propulsive soft landing on land like a helicopter. The test was conducted in SpaceX‘s rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas. The company is planning to develop this system further. A crew of two NASA astronauts would fly on the first crewed test before the end of 2017.