An engineer attaches NASA’s Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle to the balloon embilical, Wednesday, June 3, 2015, at the Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) in Kauai, Hawaii. The LDSD crosscutting technology demonstration mission will test two breakthrough technologies that will enable larger payloads to be landed safely on the surface of Mars or other planetary bodies with atmospheres, including Earth.

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