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Ames wind tunnels put NASA's new moonshot to the test

Original post made on Feb 17, 2020

America's latest bid to send astronauts into space has researchers at NASA Ames hard at work, trying to figure out how to get safely get a hulking 320-foot tower of metal, stuffed with 733,000 gallons of fuel, out of the atmosphere.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Sunday, February 16, 2020, 8:48 AM

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Posted by Gem in our midst
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 17, 2020 at 3:00 am

Nice to see a story about the good work they're doing at Ames. They do a lot with what they have.

Very cool.


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