Saturday, October 15, 2005

NASA Chooses Lunar Lander Design Team

The lunar lander/module always fascinated me as a kid. It just looked cool.
NASA has announced the team responsible for designing the next-gen lunar lander: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., and Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., will lead the team.
Did you know Neil Armstrong performed the test flight on the first lunar lander? He narrowly escaped death by making a split second decision to eject, moments before the vehicle crashed to the desert below, bursting into flames.
Talk about "nerves of steel."

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