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Near Miss at $2-Million Lunar Lander Challenge 
Wired News | by Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides | Fri, Oct 24
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Image: Jeff Foust A team of rocket-vehicle designers came tantalizingly close to winning the $2-million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge this morning. The lunar lander built by Armadillo Aerospace managed to lift off vertically from a lunch and land on a second pad...
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