Space Penguin Could Hop Around The Moon

notdanielp writes "A robotic Lunar Penguin explorer could be hopping around on the moon by 2009, said Raytheon on Tuesday, as it unveiled the concept lander at an aerospace conference. The unmanned lunar device, in development for two years, is 3 feet tall and weighs approximately 230 pounds. It "hops" by reigniting small propulsion engines ... President Bush last year refocused the space program on sending people to the moon, Mars and beyond. Raytheon said the Penguin could be a robotic precursor to future manned space missions and that it was being proposed to NASA."

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Re:ill avoid the linux jokes...

[betelgeuse-4]

Penguins aren't only native to the Antartic region, they're found as far north as the Galápagos Islands which are only just south of the equator. (See Wikipedia)

Re:Space Penguin...

[halivar]

Amazing how if you'd posted one minute earlier, you'd be (+5, Funny) instead of (1, Redundant).

I wonder how many people have posted something along these lines while I was composing this post.