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NASA rocket with inflatable spacecraft heatshield blasts
technicians and engineers put the finishing touches on a unique experiment designed to demonstrate that an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield could be used to protect spacecraft when entering or leaving a planet's atmosphere.NASA has launched a rocket carrying an inflatable heat-shield technology demonstration flight from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.The agency says a Black Brant XI sounding rocke
