NASA Rocket Launch Tests Supersonic Parachute for Mars Rover Landings

Friday, September 7, 2018 - 11:50 in Astronomy & Space

NASA successfully tested a supersonic parachute designed to land the agency's next rover on Mars today (Sept. 7) during a sounding rocket flight from Wallops Island in Virginia.

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