NASA's new innovation could help get humans to Mars by 2040

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Engineers have developed an inflatable heat shield called a Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, or HIAD, the technology could help NASA land astronauts and massive cargo loads on the Red Planet in the late 2030s. Now a team at the space agency’s Langley Research Center in Virginia is ready to test its mettle in space.

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