This Week @NASA
During a free-flight test of the Morpheus prototype lander at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, the lander used its newly installed suite of autonomous landing and hazard avoidance technology sensors to survey the landing field for hazards and successfully self-navigate to a safe landing. NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle, has completed final assembly at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. With the successful completion of a Mission Critical Design Review, NASA and its international partners can move ahead with construction of the lander for the InSight mission to Mars. An ISS Science Forum took place Wednesday at Johnson Space Center. The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft left the space station on Sunday, a month after delivering more than 2-and-a-half tons of supplies and science investigations. Training continues at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for Expedition 40/41 -- the next crew headed to the station. The new NASA Student Launch, formerly the Student Launch Initiative wrapped up Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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