Aerocapture techniques ready for prime time, NASA says
NASA scientists are ready to demonstrate aerocapture - using a planet's atmosphere to slow a spacecraft and "capture" it into orbit - before the end of the decade. Aerospace agency scientists have been ready to try it for years, according to Richard Powell, senior research engineer at NASA Langley...
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