NASA's 'flying saucer' readies for first test flight

Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 09:31 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) —It only sounds like science fiction. To test a new technology for landing heavy payloads on Mars, NASA is about to drop a flying-saucer shaped vehicle from a helium balloon high above Earth's surface.

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