NASA’s Latest Bid to Keep Moon Landings Clean Include Plume-Surface Interaction Tests

Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia have activated their massive vacuum chamber to address one of the most pressing issues of landing on the Moon: what happens to the dusty surface when a spaceship touches down. They’re primarily looking at how engine exhaust stirs up the ground, or how all that dust, boulders, [...]

NASA’s Latest Bid to Keep Moon Landings Clean Include Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia have activated their massive vacuum chamber to address one of the most pressing issues of landing on the Moon: what happens to the dusty surface when a spaceship touches down. They’re primarily looking at how engine exhaust stirs up the ground, or how all that dust, boulders, [...]

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