Awesome!!! Armadillo Aerospace's 2009 Lunar Lander Entry
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Stumble ThisLove the HD footage. Carmack's stabilizing software wiggle is awesome.
"Watch Flight 2 of Armadillo Aerospace's successful attempt to qualify to win Level 2 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. See Super Mod aka Scorpius return from the lunar surface pad to its original start position. The competition is still open as there are other teams attempting to win the $1M first place prize purse later in October 2009. "
"Watch Flight 2 of Armadillo Aerospace's successful attempt to qualify to win Level 2 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. See Super Mod aka Scorpius return from the lunar surface pad to its original start position. The competition is still open as there are other teams attempting to win the $1M first place prize purse later in October 2009. "
the whole time watching it, i was thinking this thing was like 2-3 feet tall.... yeah i was way off!
Nevermind! Just realized I didn't read the whole tag. Anything with John Carmack should instantly being videogames tagged.
Why is this marked w/ Video games?
Nevermind! Just realized I didn't read the whole tag. Anything with John Carmack should instantly being videogames tagged.
Not to mention * geek
With the moon's gravity being 1/6th the earth's, the payload that even this particular unit could carry is interesting.
thats what she said
but can it blend?
http://lander.dunnbypaul.net/
If any one else loves the original game as much as me(hence the old school gaming tag). This is a pretty good remake of the original vector based atari game...
http://lander.dunnbypaul.net/
Found one of these with a broken coin slot (someone had turned on the infinite quarters switch) and spent most of an afternoon having a competition with a friend seeing who could go the fastest straight down before crashing. IIRC you would "abort" button to get some altitude then spin upside down (expert mode) and wall the throttle, adjusting to get into a crevass, not into the side of a mountain.
Good times. Good times.