Tuesday April 21, 2009
Doughnut balloon-chute spaceships to reach Mars, Neptune
Lewis Page
The Register
Rocket braking is so retro (cough)
NASA-funded R&D engineers are working on plans for future spaceships to enter orbit around Mars using a doughnut shaped, steerable balloon-chute to slow down by flying through the Red Planet's atmosphere.
Global Aerospace is a Californian firm founded by ex-NASA engineers and in this case funded with NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) money.
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