NASA Tests Inflatable Heat Shield Technology for Deep Space Missions
Before NASA uses its new inflatable technology for slowing spacecraft that are entering the atmospheres of other planets, it will first need to be packed into the tight confines of a rocket. Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, recently put the technology to the test by packing…
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