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The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge is designed to accelerate commercial technological developments supporting the birth of a new generation of Lunar Landers capable of ferrying payloads or humans back and forth between lunar orbit and the lunar surface. Such a vehicle would have direct application to NASA’s space exploration goals as well as the personal spaceflight industry.
The Micro-Space suborbital vehicle is assembled from the modular propulsion units which are used in our other designs. It uses a cockpit core much like a bobsled into which three pressure suited men can squeeze. Various configurations of propulsion strap-ons are possible.
SpeedUp's Laramie Rose continues to move toward hover testing. The thrust-vectoring vanes have been installed, and the vehicle is mounted on a set of 3-axis load cells. We measured thrust vs. throttle position in the first test, and the effectiveness of the thrust-vectoring vanes on the second test. Sharp eyes will see one of the vanes moving near the end of the test, and some peroxide dripping from a fitting that is easily replaced.
Originally posted by apex
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Come on, what is your level of knowledge that makes you an expert enough to declare them all stupid? There is no air on the moon, you don't need something aerodynamic.
Originally posted by Big-Brain
Yes but you need a biggest technology that does not exist yet today.
You need non-existent sensors, non-existent softwares able to move rocket engines in a suitable way, non-existent rocket engines able to act smoothly, non-existent mechanical devices able to move fast.
posted by branestorm
What is he going to say next? That vagina's do not exist because he has never seen or experienced one before?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
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Now....I wrote all of this to try to explain to not only the OP, but to the audience, that there is a whole heck of a lot of training, experience, and knowledge sets that go into just flying a commercial jet. Imagine the engineering that goes into designing something that you have no human on, you cannot intervene remotely due to the time-lag.....you have to program it to perform perfectly.....which is what a jet that Auto-Lands all by itself does!!!!
Originally posted by Big-Brain
Try to refute my reasoning. All are able to say: "I don't like it".
DX-XA Flight 2
Credit - NASA
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VTOVL test vehicle. Year: 1993. Family: VTOVL. Country: USA. Status: Out of production. Other Designations: Delta Clipper-Experimental. Department of Defence Designation: SX-1. Manufacturer's Designation: Delta Clipper Experimental. Alternate Designation: Clipper Graham.
The Flying Bedstead was a nickname given to two different experimental vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, both receiving the nickname because each comprised a skeletal platform raised on four legs that resembled a bed.
These aircraft were the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig (TMR), and the later LLRV (Lunar Landing Research Vehicle) developed as part of the Apollo program. Both aircraft relied on jet lift (engine thrust directed downwards) rather than aerofoil surfaces, such as wings or rotors, as a means of providing lift.
Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig 1953
The first Flying Bedstead was the British Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig which flew in 1953 at Hucknall aerodrome, Nottinghamshire, England, which was developed to research the use of direct-lift through the use of engine power alone, along with the associated methods of controlling the aircraft, with a view to use in further VTOL aircraft such as the later Hawker P.1127 and Short SC.1.
A pub close to the aerodrome in Hucknall is named The Flying Bedstead and its pub sign is a painting of the Thrust Measuring Rig.
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle 1960s
The second aircraft known as the Flying Bedstead was the LLRV (Lunar Landing Research Vehicle) developed by the United States in the 1960s as part of the Apollo program and intended for studying piloting techniques for use by the astronauts destined for the moon landings in the Apollo Lunar Module.
This animation shows how NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander can measure wind speed and direction by imaging the Telltale with the Stereo Surface Imager (SSI).
Originally posted by weedwhacker
B-B has a very small brain....oops, I'm in trouble!!
And I really don't understand why the brighter people here continue this futility.