Masten Claims $1M NASA Prize (Lunar Lander w/video)

A NASA competition to stimulate commercial space projects has a winner -- Masten Space Systems of California is being awarded the top $1 million prize for demonstrating a lunar lander.

The race literally came down to the wire, reports the California-based X Prize Foundation, which oversaw the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge for NASA, part of the agency's Centennial Challenges program.

SOURCE: blogs.discovery.com...

This is cool. Makes me wonder though, what was wrong with the original lunar lander design? Is this an upgrade over the old one?