Lunar Lander

Full-Scale, Customisable Lunar Lander Replica For Sale

11:00AM December 6, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

What I want right this moment is a sleek spacesuit and $US89,000 so that I can order myself this custom Lunar Lander replica and pretend to be an adventurous spacegirl. No nasty astronaut ice cream for me though, thanks. More »


Gaming

Atari’s Lunar Lander, Made Real

4:00AM October 31, 2009 | Adam Frucci

A crazy British engineer named Iain Sharp decided to honour the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by building a real-life version of the classic Atari game Lunar Lander. And you know what? It’s pretty great. More »


Science

Robotic Lunar Lander Part Of NASA’s Next-Gen Space Plans

5:20AM October 2, 2009 | Danny Allen

This amazing shot comes from recent tests at the Marshall Space Flight centre, where the robotic lunar test bed is helping NASA develop a new generation of multi-use landers to explore the moon, Mars and asteroids. More »


Science

Armadillo Wins XPrize Lunar Lander Challenge Level 1, Crashes On Level 2

9:37AM October 28, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

John Carmack’s Armadillo Aerospace has won the $US350,000 Level One X-Prize Lunar Lander Challenge. As this video shows, their spaceship blasted off the designated area, got up to 150 feet, and then hovered for 90 seconds at that altitude to land with absolute precision on a pad 150 feet away. And they did it twice. Armadillo was also the first one to try the $US1.65 million Level Two challenge, but unfortunately crashed badly on that attempt, as the next video shows:

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