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Launchpad: Pumping Up the Volume

Launchpad: Pumping Up the Volume

Update: 2012-10-26
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Learn how Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators, or HIAD, use the diameter of an inflatable vehicle to increase drag and land larger payloads on new destinations. See how NASA engineers use design and complex testing to get the inflatable to make and keep the effective blunt-body shape.
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Launchpad: Pumping Up the Volume

Launchpad: Pumping Up the Volume

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