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The insect-like vehicle, designed and built by engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, had made several flights attached to a crane before Thursday's attempted free-flight
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Morpheus' engines, which burn liquid oxygen and methane, appeared to ignite as planned, lifting the 1,750-pound (794 kg) vehicle into the air. But a few seconds later, Morpheus rolled over on its side and plummeted to the ground.
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An investigation is under way
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an example of what the former project manager called "Home Depot engineering" - low-budget projects that use existing resources and partner with non-traditional aerospace companies.
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Instead of building some elaborate test structure, you go to Home Depot and build something very quickly that gets you 80 percent of the answer and allows you to keep moving forward
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designed to deliver about 1,100 pounds (500 kg) of cargo to the moon
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NASA engineers are forging ahead on work
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that's part of development, especially lean development
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also testing out automated hazard-detection technology, which would use lasers to spot dangerous boulders or craters on the surface of another world
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lander that crashed Thursday is apparently a lost cause. But
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already begun work on another vehicle, which could be ready for its first tests by early 2013
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second lander will not pick up where the first left off
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It would have to work up to a free-flight test, going through a series of tethered flights first
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