NASA inflatable Spacecraft explored for the mission to land on Mars with in a day. Now, each astronaut can go to the Red planet, Mars easily for any purpose.
As a result, at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, the engineers have been working to develop an inflatable heat shield that looks a lot like a super-sized version of a stacking ring of doughnuts. This looks as a toy that infants play with.
They do believe in a lightweight, inflatable heat shield can be easily handled, so that can be deployed to slow the craft to enter a Martian atmosphere that is much thinner than ours.
If it is this case, the heat shield can help the spacecraft to reach high altitude plains of Mars. The mechanists tell that rockets alone can’t be used to land a large craft on Mars. Whereas, it can be done on the airless moon.
Even parachutes cannot help the humans in a large spacecraft for Mars. Therefore, the inflatable rings helps in this situation. The rings that are used here are filled with nitrogen. They are covered with a thermal blanket for best usage. When it is deployed for landing, rings would sit atop the spacecraft like a mushroom look.
The senior engineer at Langley, Neil Cheatwood said “We try to not use propulsion if we don’t have to, we make use of that atmosphere as much as we can, because it means we don’t have to carry all that fuel with us.”
By 2030, NASA scientists said that it would be easier to transport people from Earth to Mars and vice versa. There are in a challenge of designing in-space propulsion systems, advanced spacesuits, long-term living habitats, aboard spacecraft, communication systems for deep space in future.