Parachute Technology

NASA launched a giant balloon Monday carrying a kind of "flying saucer" that will test technologies for landing on Mars, but its outsized parachute only partly deployed.

With the goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s, Nasa is a new generation of parachute technology known as the Supersonic Ringsail Parachute.

The US space agency plans to try out the largest parachute ever deployed Wednesday during a flying saucer launch that will test new technologies for landing on Mars.

NASA launched a giant balloon Monday carrying a kind of "flying saucer" that will test technologies for landing on Mars, but its outsized parachute only partly deployed.

With the goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s, Nasa is a new generation of parachute technology known as the Supersonic Ringsail Parachute.

The US space agency plans to try out the largest parachute ever deployed Wednesday during a flying saucer launch that will test new technologies for landing on Mars.