Inflatable Spacecraft: New NASA App

New NASA Space Technology App Educates Users at Hypersonic Speeds

 

WASHINGTON -- Want to try your hand at landing an inflatable spacecraft? All you need is a smart phone, a computer or a tablet.
NASA has released a new educational computer Web game based on its Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) project. The game can be played on the Internet and Apple and Android mobile devices.

The application can be downloaded free from those mobile device stores and on NASA's HIAD website at:

>>> http://www.nasa.gov/hiad

HIAD is an innovative inflatable spacecraft technology NASA is developing to allow giant cones of inner tubes stacked together to transport cargo to other planets or bring cargo back from the International Space Station.

More: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/sep/HQ_12-309_HIAD_APP.html

Source: NASA.

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