Video: NASA tests the ability of spacecraft to safely land

In the video above we will see how NASA tests the spacecraft's "survival" ability or self-propelled exploration vehicle after landing on a planet's surface.

The US Aerospace Agency has conducted these crash tests at the Langley Research Center, Virginia. True-scale, real-world spacecraft, modules, self-propelled vehicles are hung on a 73m-high crane then dropped and slipped on a ground or a deep water tank.

This type of experiment has been used by NASA's Landing & Impact Research Facility since 1965, when the facility was named Lunar Landing Research Facility (Moon Landing). It was also thanks to this model that astronauts Neil Amstrong and Buzz Aldrin were trained to be able to carry out the Apollo 11 mission.

Currently, the Landing & Impact Center has expanded the scope of testing, from military aircraft to racing cars.