Erickson Air-Crane, Inc. ground crew members make final checks prior to takeoff of a S-64 helicopter carrying the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology LIDAR equipment during flight tests at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Erickson Air-Crane, Inc. ground crew members make final checks prior to takeoff of a S-64 helicopter carrying the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology LIDAR equipment during flight tests at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. The chopper flew over a varied obstacle course designed to test the sensor’s ability to distinguish various obstacles in order to assure the future safe landings of manned and robotic spacecraft on extraterrestrial bodies.July 26, 2010
NASA Photo / Tony Landis