An Air Force major approached Dr. Rogers in a hallway and offered to show him something that would “knock his socks off,” he ...

NASA tested its flying saucer-like low-density supersonic decelerator (LDSD) today. This vessel could possibly be the spacecraft for future Mars landings. Unfortunately, the craft's parachute didn ...

[Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] The resulting VZ-9 first flew in 1959. Resembling a small flying saucer, the Avrocar was only 18 feet in diameter, only half the wingspan of a Cessna 172. Despite its ...