Lunar Lander Floats on Electric-blue Jets
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 15:28
in Astronomy & Space
How do you fly on a world with no atmosphere? Wings won't work and neither do propellers. The space agency is perfecting the art of "airless flying" using a prototype lunar lander at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
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