Thursday, January 25, 2007

Heavy-Lift Helicopter Inspires NASA’s New Mars Lander

This article talks about how the Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane heavy-lift helicopter is the inspiration behind the delivery system of the new Mars Lander. The new lander is simply to massive to be delivered to Mars using the airbag landing technique used in the past so NASA had to come up with something new and here are the results.

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