Project M GENIE Integration and Lander Free Flight

[websuspect]

Did you guys have this technology in 1969? Just wondering?

[NASAProjectM]

@websuspect No, those landers were flown manually. In fact several of the flights landed within a few feet of a crater. If the lander leg had landed in the crater that crew would have been stuck on the moon.

This project (Now called Project Morpheus) is trying to create an autonomous lander capable of sending large payloads to the moon, or other planetary bodies.

[majormajor42]

So are they a mixture of NASA and AA employees in this video?

[BCEMCOCATb]

Отличная работа, ребята!

[Dahalum]

very cool =D

[meldeebueno]

awesome!

[zerosumgamez]

remarkable!

[sdub999]

Nice little project here. Seems to use the same overall methodology and basic design as Armadillo Aerospace has been doing for a while now.

[2ruthfox82]

looks like it bout caught on fire at the end, we are beyond this technology if you ask me....

[urumqilik]

thumbs up ...that thing flies really stable .

[zecnobot]

Just strap Chuck Norris to that thing and you're set.

[KnightKiller1000]

@DarkCerberus1

Well the CO2 is allready being taken care of from trees and plants, we just need to plant some in some sort of hovering tech up to where most CO2 lvls are and there you go...

[sorrath]

hmmm.. why they building again this stuff and have new prototypes if NASA has already been in the moon??

I don't say to use old stuff but this kind of considerations the old team didn't had it and still went. If something ever is fishy about the first moon landing isn't (imo) the footage before but how many years of preparation and money they spend now.

[viclorwow]

looks like a flying flamethrower

[Boehoehuahoei]

at the end it looks like it sets itself on fire.. hmm, maybe an explosion ?

[ChrisTucket]

@Boehoehuahoei or the grass caught on fire from all the exhaust out the bottom?

[theglasgowinventor]

SO COOL

[Tobi1270]

awesome work guys, wow! if you consider that right now the only way we can land unmanned stuff on the moon / mars / whereever is by effectively crashing it on the surface (or parachuting it) and now look at how elegantly this beauty can land, awesome! keep it up and greetings from germany!

[freakincrazyperson]

i remember reading something about this in popular science a few years back and you just completed the task of take off travel and landing which will have a reward of a couple million dolllars right? that waas awesome by the way

[ferch0o0]

is the time machine ready?

[DOCSOCKBFD777]

Why waste so much time, effort and money on something that's been done before - 40 years before. Man landed on the moon using this type of craft with no problems at all. What's more they did it without the need for modern ALHAT navigation and guidance software, sensor technology, infrared laser altimeter etc etc.

Suggest you go back and look how they did it 40 years ago. It seems as if it were easier then than it is now. Honestly, anyone would think we never went to the moon. Did we?

[Bag0Bones]

@DOCSOCKBFD777

The point is so they don't have to send a man to guide a joystick in real time. Note that is costs a lot to send the needed water, air and food for a human crew not to mention safety gear.. They are trying to find cheap ways to get robots on the moon.

[vunley]

@DOCSOCKBFD777 Human life support in space is expensive. A robot allows them to always have something there on the moon at all times. It's actually great for NASA.

[KnightKiller1000]

@DOCSOCKBFD777

2 words: Space Pioneers... Nuff said...

[mobius1234]

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