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80 - Vaguely a Mutiny

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Moon Express Landers - What Was Your Scope of Work?

I was working on the main engines, I guess, for the Moon Express Landers. That was actually a side project that Moon Express was doing basically. They were working on the Google winner X prize and they decided to do these milestone prizesBasically as a way to essentially just give some, some of the prize out. The Indian team built one landing gear and they did one drop test and they got a million dollars. Whereas Moon Express said, well, we're going to build a full flight test vehicle like an analog, you know, flight test vehicle. So I basically did an all-nighter and designed a test vehicle that was an approximation of what the actual lander was supposed to

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