NASA Tests Inflatable Reentry Vehicle
NASA hopes to continue studying inflatable heat shields with possible applications on missions to Mars and other celestial bodies with atmospheres, after an early test article survived a suborbital flight before sinking in the Atlantic Ocean. The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE) was...
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