We young boys used slingshots to launch folded hankerchiefs that were tied on the corners to make parachutes, weighted on the bottom with a steel washer.
Shot them as high as we could straight up over our heads and watched them float down.
That's what I saw today on a larger scale.
The Mercury 7 described themselves as "spam in a can" when they were expected to ride in a capsule without the ability to act as pilots by having navigational abilities within their craft. Alan Shepard is having a laugh somewhere.

I think he looked like Wavy Gravy from the Hog Farm.

I wonder if Amazon employees got to watch it?
"OK. Now, everybody get back to work!" "You've had your break!" "Uncle Jeff needs the dough."
