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NASA and X Prize Announce Winners of Lunar Lander Challenge

Nov 03, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will award $1.65 million in prize money Thursday to a pair of innovative aerospace companies that successfully simulated landing a spacecraft on the moon and lifting off again.

NASA Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere

LADEE Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 26, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

Right now, the Moon is a ghost town. Nothing stirs. Here and there, an abandoned Apollo rover — or the dusty base of a lunar lander — linger as silent testimony to past human activity. But these days, only ...

'Look Ma, No Parachute!' Lunar Lander Floats on Electric-blue Jets

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 15, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (15) | 5

How do you fly on a world with no atmosphere? Wings won't work and neither do propellers. And don't even try that parachute!

Rockets vie in simulated lunar landing contest

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 17, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 1

(AP) -- A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday before an engine problem forced its developers to call ...