Space Video of the Day - 071101

This past weekend at the X-Prize Cup, Armadillo Aerospace was the only team to compete in the Lunar Lander Challenge. They came oh so close to winning, too, needing only to hover for a few seconds longer. Today's space video shows their first attempt to win the prize at this year's cup. It looks to me like the Module 1 craft started to oscillate after having hovered for a fairly long time, which probably led to sloshing withing the tanks, which made the oscillations worse, and so on. It ended up crashing from a height of a few feet.


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