Will NASA Send Robots to the Moon with “Project M?”

by Nancy Atkinson on February 5, 2010

This video surfaced today on NASA Watch, but there’s not a lot of details about Project M. According to the America Space website, Project M is a program being developed out of the Johnson Space Center Engineering Directorate to put a lander on the moon with a robot. Supposedly, the mission could be done within a 1,000 days once the project got the go-ahead.

It would be different than other NASA projects in that there would be no prime contractors, but just using “the best engineers in the world to get the job done on time,” said America Space.

Cryptically, the website also says the project has been “go” since Monday, November 9th, 2009.

We’ll post more as it becomes available.

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  • http://www.spaceward.org CrazyEddieBlogger

    These appear to me a lot more advanced than the state of the art. In other words, CGI-engineered.

    100 days?

    Show it on Earth first.

    Agile humanoid movement, with power supplies built in, capable of working at lunar temperatures and in lunar dust environment.

    I must have been missing out on a lot….

  • Lawrence B. Crowell

    Robots which walk and have a measure of manual dexterity do exist. In fact the technology has been moving forwards a lot since SONY built a robot around 2005 that could walk up and down stairs and dance to music.

    LC

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