NASA seems to entering the flying saucer industry. Due to poor weather conditions in Hawaii, from where the flying saucer is set to be launched, NASA was unable to launch a test flight earlier in June.

The saucer will be lifted using a helium balloon to a height of about 36,000 metres. The trial will then use a rocket which will take the saucer up, four times the speed of sound, to the stratosphere. TThe saucer will be let free and will fire four rocket motors, stabilising the craft, and pacing the saucer's decelerator and parachute.

The flying saucer is officially called Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD). A cross between a large doughnut and a flying saucer is how LDSD looks. Delivery of vital equipment in missions to Mars without destroying the payload or plummeting too fast damaging the surface of the planet is the main task of the 'flying saucer.'

NASA engineer Ian Clark said, "Our ultimate goal is to get to an altitude and velocity which simulates the kind of environment one of our vehicles would encounter when it would fly in the Martian atmosphere. Our team has been working on this project for several years, and we have been so focused."

She added that they came to do their job and get the vehicle off the ground but unfortunately, the weather didn't allow them to do so and that they are very optimistic and are hoping to test the vehicle at the end of the month.

The space agency, on June 24, said that the flight will happen between 18:15 and 19:30 GMT on any day between June 28 and July 1 or on July 3. This mission will be telecast by NASA on their television channel and will be carried on Ustream as well.