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Interview with the Google Lunar X PRIZE team, LunaTrex at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. We chat about the issues in going to the moon and what LunaTrex thinks it will take to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE.

Armadillo Aerospace’s QUAD (Pixel) launch at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. This was the first time anyone had attempted the harder level of the challenge, and unfortunately didn’t go as well as everyone had hoped. In this video we not only have the launch attempt but also the [...]

After TrueZer0’s flight at the X PRIZE Foundation’s 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge we were able to snag them for a bit for an interview.
Great team and a fun interview.

This is an interview with Steve Landeen who is the Executive Director of Spaceport America. Yet another great interview that talks about the United States first purpose built spaceport capable of working with both vertical and horizontal lifting vehicles. Yet another great interview from the X PRIZE Foundation’s 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge!

In the news we have new images of Mercury, the Hubble Space Telescope is back online and the Venezuela space program. Main topic if of course the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge!

We interview Ken Davidian of NASA’s Centennial Challenges program at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. This is a very interesting 30 minute interview that talks about the thin line between NASA and private space travel. Even NASA can benefit from private space which is where the Centennial Challenges [...]

Interview with Andrew Petro of NASA’s Innovative Project Partnership at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. Interesting interview that covers NASAs role in private space. There is a new market being born here and it is not NASA vs everyone else but rather how NASA can help everyone else. [...]

This was a groundbreaking announcement made at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. Not only will New Mexico be the state hosting Spaceport America, but it will also be carrying Virgin Galactic as well as the newly announced vehicle from Armadillo Aerospace in cooperation with the Rocket Racing League. Check out the coverage, this is a world changing announcement.

This is the post Pixel flight interview with John Carmack of Armadillo Aerospace at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.

This is the second launch attempt of Armadillo Aerospace’s MOD rocket at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. In order to win the challenge the rocket must fly twice within the specified time. Here is the first flight:

And here is the second flight which won Armadillo first place in [...]

This is the launch attempt of TrueZer0’s Ignignokt rocket for the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. After the failure, the vehicle was unable to launch again to attemp a second flight.

This is the first launch attempt of Armadillo Aerospace’s MOD rocket at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.  This particular launch ended early with the MOD touching the pad about 30 seconds too soon.  As such it was not a qualifying launch for the level 1 prize.

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