NASA Launches 'Flying Saucer' to Test Mars Landing Tech

Saturday, June 28, 2014 - 18:01 in Astronomy & Space

The space agency launched its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle today from Hawaii, seeing how equipment designed to slow the descent of spacecraft through the Red Planet's atmosphere performs at high speeds in Mars-like conditions.

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