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Saturday, June 28, 2014

NASA Expected to Launch Mars 'Flying Saucer'

NASA Expected to Launch Mars 'Flying Saucer'


NASA plans to launch in the Earth's atmosphere a "flying saucer" in order to test the new technology of landing on Mars on Saturday, according to the space agency’s website.

Earlier the launching of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), resembling a futuristic circular disc from movies about aliens, has been repeatedly postponed due to unfavorable weather in the area of ​​the flight pad in Hawaii.