NASA Completes Successful Heat Shield Testing for Future Mars Exploration Vehicles

The latest from NASA! http://ift.tt/1VBxQe4 As NASA missions to Mars progress with science and complex human exploration missions, spacecraft will require larger heat shields to protect against the extreme heat of entering a planet’s atmosphere and decelerating at a safe altitude in the thin Martian atmosphere.http://ift.tt/1FRPRxG