Attached: technical details on the Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Coffee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tcoffee@mit.edu">tcoffee@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">NASA has done the first successful test of an inflatable reentry heat shield, a potential precursor for heavy-landing Mars aeroshells:<br>
<br><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/19/inflatable-shield.html" target="_blank">http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/19/inflatable-shield.html</a><br>
<br>- Thomas<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>______________________________________<br><font color="#888888"><br>Thomas Coffee<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics<br>Space Systems Laboratory<br>

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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>______________________________________<br><br>Thomas Coffee<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics<br>Space Systems Laboratory<br>
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