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January 24, 2011
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Draper Commits One Million Dollars To Next Giant Leap's Moon Lander
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 24, 2011
Next Giant Leap (NGL) announced that Draper Laboratory has committed over $1 million from their internal research and development (IR and D) program to fund the design and development of a guidance, navigation and control (GN and C) system testbed for use in Next Giant Leap's commercial lunar mission. "A critical component of any lunar landing mission is the GN and C," said Seamus Tuohy, Space Systems Director at Draper. "In addition to landing, we are developing a system that can propulsively hop ... read more

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