the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, proving that a private company has the know-how to build a craft capable of ferrying supplies or astronauts around the lunar surface. At the X Prize event ...

WASHINGTON — Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, earned $350,000 in NASA prize money during the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge in Las Cruces, N.M. The challenge is a two-level, $2 million ...

Armadillo Aerospace, led by id Software founder John Carmack, successfully flew its Scorpius vehicle twice in two hours between a pair of landing pads to qualify for the $1 million top prize in NASA’s ...

It was an ignominious end to what looked to be a very promising outlook for Armadillo Aerospace at this weekend's Wirefly X Prize Cup in Alamogordo, MN. The company's hard-fought quest to snare ...

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M.–Armadillo Aerospace, the space company of Doom creator John Carmack, impressed the crowd here Saturday by flying and landing a privately built lunar spacecraft over 90 ...

New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced Saturday that Armadillo Aerospace had launched a STIG-B rocket designed and built by the Rockwall, TX, company. This launch was the first ...

After crashing the last time, Armadillo Aerospace won the $1,000,000 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge this Saturday. Needless to say, Doom-creator, Armadillo ...

The Northrop Grumman Lunar Landing Contest, a competition designed to get private space companies more involved in helping replace NASA's aging fleet, just began its second phase on Saturday with ...

A hover test of the Armadillo Aerospace Supermod rocket, shot in fantastic 3D. The test was on June 4 2011 at the Armadillo shop in Caddo Mills, TX. Why is the engine pulsing? It’s a very large engine ...

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