NASA LANYARD: Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment ("IRVE-2") - Wallops Island

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Quality NASA breakaway lanyard with metal hook.  Commemorates this 2009 NASA Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia) launch ---
From NASA:  NASA's Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, IRVE, is a mission designed to demonstrate that an inflatable structure can be used as a heat shield to safely slow a spacecraft moving at hypersonic speed through a planet's atmosphere.  This technology could be used on a future mission to land a spacecraft on Mars. . . . The IRVE-II launched August 17, 2009 from Wallops Flight Facility on a Black Brant IX sounding rocket.
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