Morpheus Lunar Lander Try Finishes With Crash and Burn, Ultimate Explosion

Morpheus Lunar Lander Try Finishes With Crash and Burn, Ultimate Explosion

Morpheus Lunar Lander Try Finishes With Crash and Burn, Ultimate Explosion

Observed here after details took a turn for the serious (worst?), NASA's brand-new Morpheus Lander finishes its life on a test launch pad. Everything begin smooth enough (it goes up), however it collapses on its side and gets fire and worthwhile explosion at 1:52 and 2:12. Furthermore info so that you can impress a date and, I don’t know, perhaps scores a kiss: As streamed live by NASA, on 8/9/2012 at the Kennedy Space Center, the Project Morpheus lender tried its first free-flight test. Nevertheless shortly into the test a hardware component failure triggered the craft to flip over and crash and burn down in flames, followed by a number of explosions. Project Morpheus is a prototype "green" lander which is fairly affordable and more fuel efficient than earlier lander designs. Project Morpheus has cost $7 million over 2 .5 years, low-priced for a NASA project, due to "lean development" practices. Listen NASA, I am all for doing stuff inexpensively, but if your new, cheap lunar landers simply crash and blast they are like, not too good of a deal, you know? Think about you are at Best Buy and they are selling 55" flatscreens for $150. You get one, however when you get it home, it doesn't start up. Now how great of a deal was it? Food for thought or? Hit the jump for the unhappiness.