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No need to waste an operational test unit for Orion for this test. It’s a judicial use of taxpayer funds.
Apollo testing made use of boilerplate capsules for most of the parachute testing. Three of the four Little Joe-II's, and the two Pad Abort tests, those were boilerplate capsules, a real spacecraft was only used for the last test.
If you want to make the judicial use of taxpayer funds argument, please explain the MLAS boondoggle (at least $20 million for the one flight of a system they KNEW by that point was never going to be used) where they "tested a concept for a unique abort system", that did NOT actually test the unique abort system, but DID have parachutes out the yin-yang.
Also, if there is ever a chute failure with a crew onboard, remember the "saving of funds".
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