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In the 1960s NASA for some time been wanting to use for braking and landing, the lander capsules manned spacecraft no parachute and jet look like a helicopter, but in fact working like autogyro. The advantages of this method are obvious: air flow not only will rotate the screw, slowing down the system, but also creates a lifting force, will allow capsule, down the autorotation, effectively manage trajectory. But weighty and cons of the parachute easier and cheaper. However, despite the era of severe financial constraints, when the share of funding for NASA in the GDP of the USA has fallen to historic lows, the office comes back again to the old idea. Strange, because the way and the good times was considered expensive...