NASA to study supersonic parachute, shredded in 'flying saucer' test
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 05:03
in Astronomy & Space
A supersonic parachute meant to slow a flying saucer during landing quickly failed during a test flight Monday – a second strike that the team had been hoping to avoid. Now, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory hope to pull more data from the craft to try and learn what happened -- and...