NASA Plans More Flight Tests Of Saucer-Shaped Reentry Testbed

HOUSTON, Texas — NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate will press ahead with plans for dual 2015 flight tests of new Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) technologies for future Mars surface missions, following a milestone June 28 high-altitude test over the Pacific Ocean that ended with...

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