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Comment Does NASA have other Morpheus landers? (Score 1) 237

by dlist72 on Thursday August 09, 2012 @10:07PM (#40941193) Attached to: NASA Morpheus Lander Test Ends In Explosion

Sucks that it went out like that, but you're going to have setbacks on the way to achieving great things. Does anyone know if NASA has other landers to test of was Morpheus the only one of that model.

Submission + - NASA Morpheus Lander Explosion

Submitted by DishpanMan on Thursday August 09, 2012 @05:12PM

DishpanMan writes: For every success story from NASA like Curiosity, there is a failure story, like today's Morpheus project test flight at Kennedy Sapce Center. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/exploration/morpheus/index.html. The project is trying to build a low cost Moon and Asteroid lander using clean fuels on a shoestring budget. While tethered flight test were successful, today's actual flight test ended in a crash and a ball of fire followed by a spectacular explosion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hvlG2JtMts Initial feedback points to hardware failure, but the investigation is still ongoing.

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