Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Landing Technology For CEV

Late in June, Lockheed Martin performed a number of tests that successfully demonstrate new airbag technology that could be used in a future Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) design. Airbags would cushion the spacecraft's landing enough to allow an astronaut crew to safely set down on land, as opposed to the water landings required during the Apollo moon missions of the late 1960's and early 1970's.

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