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Fastest Wind Tunnel to Put NASA's Orion to the Test
While the Space Shuttle might be up for the highest bidder, engineers at NASA are working hard on the next generation manned spacecraft, the Orion. Part of that work involves testing scaled down models in the world's largest wind tunnel in Buffalo, N.Y., which was recently upgraded to achieve air speeds up to Mach 30, or about 30 times the speed of sound.
"We just got it up and running and started its research life," said Michael Holden, vice president of hypersonics at Cubrc. "The original wind tunnel was developed by NASA, but we have built it much bigger and can get much more information with our new tunnel."
It takes a "one-two punch," as Holden puts it, to create wind speeds of 30,000 miles an hour in the 100-foot-plus long, eight-foot wide tunnel.