A technician adjusts the Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Project's Pegasus rocket wing with attached PHYSX glove before a loads-test at Scaled Composites, Inc., in Mojave, CA.
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A technician adjusted the Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Project’s Pegasus rocket wing with attached PHYSX glove before a loads-test at Scaled Composites, Inc., in Mojave, CA, in January 1997. For the test, technicians slowly filled water bags beneath the wing to create the pressure, or “wing-loading,” required to determine whether the wing could withstand its design limit for stress. The wing sits in a wooden triangular frame which serves as the test-rig, mounted to the floor atop the water bags. PHYSX was launched aboard a Pegasus rocket on October 22, 1998.January 22, 1997NASA Photo / Tony Landis› Pegasus Project Description