NASA Claims Progress With LDSD Flight Test

Credit: NASA/JPL
HOUSTON — NASA engineers believe they achieved a small but potentially significant advance in efforts to develop a supersonic inflatable decelerator and parachute for landing heavy payloads on Mars following a flight test June 8 that seemed to go awry as the massive chute deployed high above the U...

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