How NASA Technologies Influence Indy Car (2008)
2008 · Short film · 6 min
Synopsis
This NASA video segment describes how Indy car engineers use NASA technologies to design safer race cars. Indy car Senior Tech Director, Les McTaggaret, discusses the precautions used to maximize safety and explains how the aerodynamics of the race car has improved due to new technologies. In addition, this segment also describes how NASA is utilizing Indy car crash data to minimize the risks associated with space vehicle re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and landing. Color animation is used to help support the presentation.
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Details
- Running time
- 6 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- NASA
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- aerodynamics
- aviation
- engineering
- race cars
- technology
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