Update
07-04-1905
Content Type
Multimedia
Grade Level
Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
Object Type
Video
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In this 5:22 video, students learn how hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerators, or HIAD, increase drag and safely land larger payloads on new destinations, and see how NASA engineers use design and complex testing to get the inflatable to make and keep the effective blunt-body shape.