Nasa's Morpheus hopper-rocket takes off - This is REAL Genius

Nasa's Morpheus vertical lander has soared to nearly 200m, the highest lift yet attempted by the future moon-lander. Morpheus is a technology testbed which will one day help land astronauts back on the moon, and on Mars. Hopefully the latest success will help people forget the first attempt, which crashed and exploded on takeoff. We haven't helped that by including gratuitous footage of it though.

The report on the micro engine: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.7101
The original report into the mammoth corpse: http://www.s-vfu.ru/en/news/detail.ph...

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