NASA Tests Supersonic Flying Saucer for Future Mars Missions
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 21:50
in Astronomy & Space
Eat your heart out, Marvin the Martian: NASA is building its own flying saucer as part of a project to get bigger payloads to Mars. The disk-shaped object is called a Low Density Supersonic Decelerator, and it's due to fly for the first time this June.