Did a flying saucer just land at NASA? It sure looks like it.

NASA has just sent a spacecraft into orbit that looks less like a traditional satellite and more like something from a 1950s movie set, a sleek disk that immediately invites the phrase “flying saucer.

WASHINGTON — NASA sent a saucer-like vehicle high into the sky Saturday to test technology for a future Mars landing, but its parachute tangled when deployed and the spacecraft splashed into the ...