Join Los Alamos National Laboratory for an audio field trip to a suborbital rocket launch. The flight took place in November 2025 in conjunction with commercial partner UP Aerospace, conducted the launch at Spaceport America. The goal was to test the performance of a new re-entry vehicle featuring a deployable aeroshell built by another commercial partner, Redwire Space, with assistance from the NASA Ames Research Center, which develops the technologies, simulations, and scientific foundations that make NASA missions possible.
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