lunar lander

Saturday, October 31, 2009
Games

Atari’s Lunar Lander, Made Real

4:00AM 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 »
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Science

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

5:20AM 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 »
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Science

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

9:37AM 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: More »
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