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Texas Rocketeer Competes In Lunar Lander Challenge
A Texan is hoping to bring home a $500,000 award from this weekend’s Lunar Lander Challenge in New Mexico.
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(October 27, 2007)--An aspiring rocketeer from Texas is returning "Pixel" to New Mexico.
John Carmack is confident his prototype lunar lander can take home a $500,000 award.
Pixel is the craft that Carmack's company, Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, entered in this weekend's Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.
The competition is part of the X Prize Cup festivities at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The X Prize Cup is a convention for private rocket enthusiasts, a celebration of their growing trade.
At last year's event, Pixel crashed during landing when its shock absorbers broke.
Carmack installed modifications, adding rubber bumpers to protect the craft.
He's confident the improvements will spell victory.
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