Masten Qualifies For $1 Million Space Prize

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Masten Qualifies For $1 Million Space Prize

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 30, 2009 @06:10PM from the fly-me-to-the-moon dept.

RobGoldsmith writes "Masten Space Systems successfully qualified for first place in level two of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Wednesday. Flying a brand new vehicle named XA-0.1E (nicknamed Xoie), Masten demonstrated their ability to build, debug and fly a vehicle on a very short timeline. " Reader lessgravity points out a video of the craft completing its mission. Apparently, the team was given an extra shot at the challenge on Friday after having trouble during their scheduled attempts on Wednesday and Thursday, which didn't please John Carmack, founder of rival team Armadillo Aerospace.

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Re:I can well imagine that Carmack is royally POed by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-30 18:38 · Score: -1, Redundant

<quote>I'm really happy for David but... John's been working on his vehicle for about a decade. Losing the the prize because the judges decided to go soft on the rules has really got to hurt. Heck, Carmack's spent so much money on his vehicle that he's had to take time off to put out new versions of Doom and Quake just to refill the coffers.</quote> <quote>I'm really happy for David but... John's been working on his vehicle for about a decade. Losing the the prize because the judges decided to go soft on the rules has really got to hurt. Heck, Carmack's spent so much money on his vehicle that he's had to take time off to put out new versions of Doom and Quake just to refill the coffers.</quote> <quote>I'm really happy for David but... John's been working on his vehicle for about a decade. Losing the the prize because the judges decided to go soft on the rules has really got to hurt. Heck, Carmack's spent so much money on his vehicle that he's had to take time off to put out new versions of Doom and Quake just to refill the coffers.</quote> I read on facebook that (His hole-in-the-wall-y-ness) John Allsup John is pondering the question of what could happen if Turing's result on the Halting problem applied to things other than Turing machines? (And whether he can make some money from the solution ;-) ) 8 minutes ago · Comment · Like John AllsupJohn is still pondering the question of what could happen if Turing's result on the Halting problem applied to things other than Turing machines? (And whether he can make some money from the solution ;-) ) 8 minutes ago · Delete John AllsupJohn is [-- insert recursive still generator here and do something else --] pondering the question of what could happen if Turing's result on the Halting problem applied to things other than Turing machines? (And whether he can make some money from the solution ;-) ) 7 minutes ago · Delete John Allsup[if i & if [make two = company] and if i & if & is [make three = crowd]] (in english) and somehow ip also becomes a similarly atomic word: won't the english language suddenly lose all of its original intended meaning?