Listening to: This Is The Way - The Chills

The Armadillo Aerospace team gave the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge a crack… and, unfortunately, failed. They used a new rocket called Pixel:

Pixel is comprised of four spherical fuel and oxidiser tanks that are each about 1 metre in diameter, while the entire rocket is a squat 2 metres tall. It cost a total of about $50,000, with about $40,000 going just for the computer.

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