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Mr. Walt Engelund, NASA Langley Research Center
Advanced Technology Development for Planetary Entry, Descent, and Landing
Mr. Walt Engelund is the Head of Langley’s Exploration Systems
Engineering Branch, a group whose charter includes the development of
advanced entry, descent, and landing technologies and flight systems for
planetary atmospheric flight. He has been at Langley for 20 years, and
is an expert in hypersonic aerodynamics, launch vehicles and entry
systems. He was responsible for the Mars Pathfinder aerodynamic
database, and led the aerodynamic development of the Hyper-X / X-43A
hypersonic flight test vehicles. He is the co-investigator on the Mars
Entry Air Data System, part of the Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing
Instrumentation (MEDLI) project, which will fly on the Mars Science
Laboratory, the Agency’s flagship mission to Mars in 2009. Mr. Engelund
is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and the author or co-author of over
50 publications on launch and entry vehicle aerodynamics, systems
analysis and hypersonic systems.
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