Inflation of a spacecraft heat shield in a wind tunnel test

A giant cone of inner tubes stacked together may someday help cargo, or even people, land on another planet or return to Earth. NASA calls the spacecraft technology HIAD - Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator. A HIAD technology demonstrator - the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment will be launched in summer 2012.
A HIAD could allow NASA to send more scientific instruments to distant worlds, because it weighs less and can expand from being packed inside a rocket to accommodate larger payloads that can land at higher altitudes.

[@glennwih]

Use EMF sheilding. The heated air, upon re-entry, will peel off. I gave the idea to NASA 10 years ago. They used it. I didn't get paid.

[@glennwih]

EMF=Electromagnetic Field. Satic electricity is a molecule thin barrier that can peel of the spacecrafts skin along with built up heat due to atomospheric turbulance. 500 electrodes sub-cutaneous on the underside and nose at 500,000 volts and .005 amps should do it. High speed low drag re-entry.

[@surfcello]

What do you mean by EMF shielding?

[@roidroid]

haha, at the end how she said "... in space", is like how people say "...in my pants".
later this year... in my space pants.

[@quinxxer]

such a good idea !

[@roidroid]

the idea is a lot older than 10 years, sorry.