NASA's Flying Saucer Has Competition

By John Wenz
www.popularmechanics.com
8-24-15

     NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (a.k.a. it's "Mars UFO") has been stealing the spotlight for a while, but it's not the only way NASA plans on parachuting astronauts and hardware safely to the surface of the Red Planet. There's also Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD), a mushroom-shaped cargo lander that's one part heat shield and one part inverted parachute. ...

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By VOR
6-30-14

    NASA has successfully tested a ‘saucer’-shaped spacecraft for future missions to Mars. A helium balloon carrying an experimental spaceship similar to the shape of the UFO, floated off a launch tower at the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, on Saturday (January 28).

A novel inflatable shield to burn off speed worked, but the test fell apart when a massive parachute, intended to guide the saucer to a splashdown in the ocean, failed to inflate properly.

The balloon - big enough to fill the Rose Bowl football stadium in Pasadena, California - lifted off at 2:40 pm EDT (18:40 GMT) and reached its designated altitude 120,000 feet (36,576 meters) above the Pacific Ocean about 2.5 hours later. . . .

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