Historic wind tunnel facility testing NASA's Mars ascent vehicle rocket

The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) team recently completed wind tunnel testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in a facility that has been a critical part of NASA missions going all the way back to the Apollo program. The same facility that provided valuable testing for NASA missions to low-Earth orbit and the moon is now helping the agency prepare to launch the first rocket from Mars. The MAV is an important part of the joint plan between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) to bring

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