New Mars Eagle Has Flown, and Landed, in Oregon Test

Posted by jburk to Airplane at September 20, 2002 12:00 PM

High above the Oregon coast yesterday, a futuristic class of Mars exploration technology took wing. The MarsFlyer -- a one-half scale prototype of a NASA craft that one day may zip across Martian skies -- made the first in a series of shakeout sojourns. The craft is dubbed the Eagle.