{"id":23744,"date":"2010-07-06T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/why-arent-we-hearing-more-about-jscs-project-m\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T08:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:10:51","slug":"why-arent-we-hearing-more-about-jscs-project-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/why-arent-we-hearing-more-about-jscs-project-m.php","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren&#8217;t We Hearing More About JSC&#8217;s Project-M?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><\/div><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><i>\"This video is of NASA Project M Lander free flight test at Armadillo Aerospace outside of Dallas. The lander launched on June 23rd 2010. This is the prototype of the lander that will launch a version of Robonaut on future exploratory missions.\"<\/i><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5fdb3_arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <b> Keith's note: <\/b> This is an interesting project, to be certain - and Armadillo's involvement is innovative and is to be commended. But I am wondering how or why this project is being funded (and is building hardware) at a time when other ESMD lunar surface activities are grinding to halt (Altair etc.). Given that NASA has yet to decide what places it is (or is not) going to - with the Moon no longer being the core focus, it is a bit curious that JSC is planning to land something on the Moon in 2013 and refers to this hardware as something that <i>\"will launch\"<\/i> Robonaut. Not <i>\"might launch\"<\/i> or <i>\"could launch\"<\/i> or <i>\"if approved ...\"<\/i><\/p><p>Also, it is a little weird that it is rather difficult to find anything detailed on this project at NASA.gov unless you happen to look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov\/m-whitepaper.asp\" target=\"blank\">Robonaut page at NASA JSC<\/a> which has a link to a document titled <i>\"Landing a Humanoid Robot on the Moon in a 1000 Days \"ProjectM\"<\/i>.  Curiously, this white paper is not even hosted at NASA.gov but rather is posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/31013955\/Project-M-White-Paper\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a> at Scribd.com. You can also download it as a PDF <a>here<\/a> at SpaceRef.<\/p><p>It is also a little unusual that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NASAProjectM\" target=\"blank\">NASAProjectM YouTube page<\/a> is not listed as a channel on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NASAtelevision\" target=\"blank\">NASA's Official YouTube page<\/a>.  This is cool stuff - and you would think that the NASA.gov home page would be featuring it and that press releases would be issued each time that a successful test launch is completed.<\/p><p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5fdb3_jK9obP6UbkY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"This video is of NASA Project M Lander free flight test at Armadillo Aerospace outside of Dallas. The lander launched on June 23rd 2010. This is the prototype of the lander that will launch a version of Robonaut on future &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/why-arent-we-hearing-more-about-jscs-project-m.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}