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NASA readies Mars 'flying saucer' for risky hypersonic flight test
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5th June 2014, 08:07
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  NASA readies Mars 'flying saucer' for risky hypersonic flight test The wispy atmosphere of Mars is 99 percent thinner than Earth's -- not great for slowing down space ships or metorites. NASA's testing a way to make it work, however, using a helium balloon, rockets and a Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD)... http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/04/n...=rss_truncated |
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