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NASA Uses ORNL Supercomputers to Plan Smooth Landing on Mars

The team’s ongoing research project is a first step in determining how to safely land a vehicle with humans onboard onto the surface of Mars.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

A U.S. mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars will be unlike any other extraterrestrial landing ever undertaken by NASA. Although the space agency has successfully landed nine robotic missions on Mars since its first surface missions in 1976 with the Viking Project, safely bringing humans to Mars will require new technologies for flight through the Martian atmosphere. But these technologies and systems can’t be comprehensively tested on Earth beforehand. Since 2019, a team of NASA...

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