Sunday, June 1, 2014

Entry # 17 - June 1 2014

NASA to test giant Mars parachute on Earth

Oscar Qi
June 1 2014
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nasa-to-test-giant-mars-parachute-on-earth-1.2661367


A saucer-shaped test vehicle is shown holding equipment for landing large payloads on Mars in the Missile Assembly Building at the U.S Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kekaha on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. The vehicle, part of the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator project, will test an inflatable decelerator and a parachute at high altitudes and speeds over the Pacific Missile Range.The NASA now builds a giant parachute that can land the spaceship on the Mars.  It is going to be tested on Earth. Many years from now, humans have sent many robotic instruments into mars and it was successful. But in order to send astronauts there, they will need a parachute to protect the astronauts from landing. Otherwise by the time the astronauts get there they will be turning into juice and pies already if you get want I’m saying. The idea is that when the weather is nice, the Agency will shoot the parachute 4 times the speed of sound into the atmosphere, and the viewers with internet can watch this wonderful moment. The Engineers do not expect success for the first time trying. However, if they got the data, they said they will be really happy, maybe just for their salary.

 

Step by step, people are closer and closer to the space traveling and space immigrating. This is very exciting as we which human move forward. 100 before we just invented the airplanes, but now, we are able to plan for where are we going to go. I hope the engineers really planned for what are those astronauts going to do when they get there. It’s going to be a boring time. Also, how can they go back? Or they just wouldn’t come back? Even though, if I ever got an opportunity, I would love to anticipate in something like this. This is so cool. I really looking forward to what is going to happen, will humans actually sleep on mars?

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