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:About 2' ?! no wonder US space program screwed by Neoprofin · 2009-10-30 23:32 · Score: -1, Troll

And to cook in metric you need special tools because 200g of rice isn't the same as 200g of flour. Of course it makes perfect sense to take a volume, convert it to a mass(calculated by weight), and then convert it back to a volume.

Neither of which is at all relevent to the story, and I hope we both get modded down.