NASA's flying saucer takes a supersonic flight, and you can tag along
Friday, August 8, 2014 - 18:30
in Astronomy & Space
By the time NASA’s flying saucer splashed down in the Pacific in June, the engineers who designed it already knew their experiment had been a huge success. From the control tower at Kauai’s Pacific Missile Range Facility, they had watched the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator — a device...