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After a series of weather-related delays, NASA launched the test flight of its revolutionary 'flying ... Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (SIAD) successfully inflated around the saucer for ...

NASA’s “flying saucer” took to the skies without trouble ... The supersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator – a balloonlike vessel – inflated around the craft, creating drag and ...

Carefully named, the All DIrections Flying Object, or ADIFO, is instead a saucer-like contraption, a flying prototype built at exploring the aerodynamic potential of an alien craft. It is, at its core ...

Recovery crews brought NASA's flying saucer-like test vehicle back to port ... our engineering and our understanding of aerodynamic decelerators," said Ian Clark, the principal investigator ...

The flying saucer carries two technologies that are ... and the the Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (SIAD) - a doughnut-shaped air brake that helped reduce the vehicle's speed ...

The concept was to develop an actual flying saucer, akin to the UFOs of popular culture. This design had no precedent of any ...