High-altitude flight-test of MATADOR Mars UAV slips to 2006

Programmatic and weather issues have forced NASA Ames Research Center's MATADOR Mars airplane program to push its next high-altitude flight-test back to no earlier than April 2006. A two-thirds scale version of the MATADOR unmanned aircraft built by the Naval Research Laboratory will launch from a...

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