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Take A Ride On A Rocket Sled To Test Supersonic Decelerators
Landing large payloads on Mars — large enough to land humans — is still beyond our capability. “There’s too much atmosphere on Mars to land heavy vehicles like we do on the moon, using propulsive technology completely,” said Rob Manning, Chief Engineer for the Mars Exploration Directorate, in an article we wrote a few years ago about the problems of landing on Mars “and there’s too little atmosphere to land like we do on Earth. Mars atmosphere provides an ugly, grey zone.”
The best hope on the horizon for making the human missions to Mars possible are supersonic decelerators that are now being developed. (…)
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