Quote Originally Posted by ugordan View Post
Chase plane footage that was recorded onboard has been released: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/video...a_id=145209661 or on Youtube
Cool, thanks.

The 2 minutes that the chutes were open seemed very long to me. Now, that's only an impression from an over 40 year old memory of watching live Apollo splashdowns. So; I could be completely wrong. Time went by so fast in those days.

But; that impression did make me think of how Dragon and Apollo splashowns compare. I tried doing some searches to get a perspective, but can't nail it down. So; can anyone answer the following for both Apollo and Dragon?
- Altitude at parachute deployment.
- Speed at parachute deployment.
- Amount of time between that and splashdown.