Will this lander carry humans to the moon? Dynetics unveils lunar mock-up

[Peter1469]

Will this lander carry humans to the moon? Dynetics unveils lunar mock-up

NASA hopes to use this lander to get astronauts back on the moon by 2024. Considering NASA's history with project slips, private industry will likely beat them.

Dynetics has built a full-scale mock-up of the lander it hopes will soon be carrying NASA astronauts to the moon.

The Alabama-based company unveiled the model of its proposed human lunar lander on Tuesday (Sept. 15). The low-fidelity prototype — which includes a crew module, deployable solar arrays and propellant tanks for lunar descent and ascent — will be used to inform and refine the final lander design.


"Our team is pleased to bring this system to life," Kim Doering, Dynetics vice president of space systems, said in a statement. "Our reusable, sustainable approach is ready to support a safe and successful hardware delivery for NASA's mission."

[Calypso Jones]

I would have thought we'd have been back and forth and built and done whatever else. But no. So why haven't we been back in 45 years?

Here's an article that says...'this is why astronauts say we haven't been back'.

https://www.businessinsider.com/moon...eturned-2018-7

[HawkTheSlayer]

I would have thought we'd have been back and forth and built and done whatever else. But no. So why haven't we been back in 45 years?

Here's an article that says...'this is why astronauts say we haven't been back'.

https://www.businessinsider.com/moon...eturned-2018-7

After Jackie Gleason passed away , no one wanted to go "to the moon...".

[Peter1469]

There has always been a tension in Congress between spending money on bettering mankind versus welfare spending.