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NASA's Mars Mission Shields Up for Tests
Set far away from residents and surrounded by dunes, the Remote Hypervelocity Test Laboratory at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, has supported every human spaceflight program from the Space Shuttle to Artemis. A team designing shields to protect NASA's Mars Earth Entry System from micrometeorites and space debris traveled to this facility to safely recreate dangerous impacts, and to test the team’s shields and computer models.
Video Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
James Tralie (ADNET):
Lead Producer
Lead Editor
Videographer
Sam Molleur (NASA/JPL):
Producer
Videographer
Dave Hendon (NASA/White Sands):
White Sands Videographer
Support
Marcus Sandy (NASA/White Sands):
Manager, White Sands Hypervelocity Testing
Dennis Garcia (NASA/White Sands):
.50-Caliber Test Conductor
Russ Stein (NASA/Goddard):
Micrometeoroid Protection System Product Design Lead
Bruno Sarli (NASA/Goddard):
System Engineer for CCRS
Art Pardo (NASA/White Sands):
White Sands Lead Electrical Technician
Animations from NASA/CILabs, NASA/JPL, and ESA
Music is "Tumbleweed" by Paul Osborne, "Old as the Hills" by Matthieu Ouaki, and "Texas Moon" by Anders Johan Greger Lewen of Universal Production Music.
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While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14219.
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