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Yet Zhao's achievement, which will parachute him in at number 11 in the world rankings, feels like a seismic and long-awaited moment for the sport.

From BBC • May 5, 2025

After the long trip home, the entry capsule will parachute to the Earth’s surface.

From Salon • May 3, 2024

If all goes as planned, the capsule will parachute into the Gulf of Mexico off Panama City, Florida, about 11 p.m.

From Reuters • May 30, 2023

And in 2023, a space capsule will parachute into the Utah desert with NASA’s first samples of an asteroid, collected last year by the excavating robot OSIRIS-REx.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021

Four of us will parachute into a field at night.

From A Yankee Flier in Italy by Montgomery, Rutherford George