Martian air-bag tested

PROTOTYPE air bags designed to cushion the impact as the NASA Mars Pathfinder lands on the Red Planet on 4 July, 1997, are tested against a rocky surface inside a vacuum chamber at NASA's Lewis Research Center, Plum Brook Station, Ohio. The Mars Pathfinder Discovery mission will include the landing ...

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