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IRVE-3 Flight Hardware Test
The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3), the third in a series of suborbital flight tests of new spacecraft reentry technology, is scheduled to launch from the Wallops Flight Facility this summer.
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Former Shuttle Booster Recovery Ship to Image SpaceX Launch
The SCIFLI team will capture high definition video and thermal imagery of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule.
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Orion Drop Test - Jan. 06, 2012
After six months of testing, an 18,000 pound (8,165 kg) Orion mockup took its final splash into NASA's Hydro Impact Basin on Jan. 6.
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Orion Drop Test - Dec. 13, 2011
The eighth water landing test of the Orion test article in the Hydro Impact Basin.
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Orion Continues to Make a Splash
The Orion test article took its seventh splash into the Hydro Impact Basin Dec. 1.
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MSL Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI)
Sensors in MSL's heat shield feed NASA researchers' curiosity about high-speed flight in out-of-this-world atmospheres.
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Contrails Over Mars? →
Langley researchers have set their sights on Mars. They're designing an airplane that can fly in the thin Martian atmosphere.