A privately built NASA unmanned lunar lander crashed during a test flight today in Florida.
A NASA unmanned lunar lander crashed during a test flight today in Florida. Video here.
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A NASA unmanned lunar lander crashed during a test flight today in Florida. Video here.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Hi Bob,
I think “privately built” is an exaggeration. Armadillo Aerospace worked closely with the JSC group on the original version of their lander but I don’t believe Armadillo had much to do directly with this one. (The design, of course, follows closely to that of Armadillo’s quad vehicles.) The recent AIAA Horizons magazine cover article on Morpheus only mentions Armadillo in passing: http://www.aiaahouston.org/Horizons/Horizons_2012_05_and_06.pdf
The JSC team clearly wanted to make it appear that they built it, though with help from private firms and other NASA groups.
Hi Clark,
Thanks for the clarification. I had thought Armadillo was more involved than it obviously was. That it isn’t is a fact I needed to know for my appearance tonight with John Batchelor.
It is amazing how often cynical clichés are repeatedly proven to be true.
In this case – “Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan.”