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Hey everyone!  I’m

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Logan.  And I’m Josh.

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We work at Marshall

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Space Flight Center.

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And we’re working on a

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robotic lander prototype.

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Some of you may not know

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everything that’s going

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on at NASA right now, so

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we wanted to make a video

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of our project, cause it’s

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pretty cool!

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This test bed will fly

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here on Earth, but an

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actual space-worthy vehicle

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could fly missions to our

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Moon, the moons of mars, or

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any other airless body!

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Like an asteroid.

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Our prototype uses 90%

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hydrogen peroxide which is

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30 times more concentrated

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than what you get at the

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drug store.  People like

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to call it a green propellant

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(green propellant), that’s

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right.  And we spray this

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peroxide over a catalyst bed

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of silver screens to cause a

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chemical reaction, just like

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diet coke and mentos, and we

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get thrust!

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Before every test, Wayne uses

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a rubber glove as a visual

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indicator to make sure all of

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our thrusters are actually

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working correctly.  Make’s sure

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all the valves work.

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Before every flight, we have

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to warm the catalyst beds.

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You’ll see some liquid peroxide

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come out, because before the

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catalyst beds are fully warmed

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up, the peroxide doesn’t

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decompose all the way, but once

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they’re warmed up, you’ll get

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nothing but super-heated steam

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out the end.

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Ok, the test is about to start.

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Control room, take it away.

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We will confirm Go/No Go for test.

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Operations Engineer?  Go.  Flight

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Software is go.  AE?  Go.  Data?

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Data is go.  Command?  Command’s go.

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Systems Engineering is go.  RCL?

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Go.  System safety?  Go.  Test

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director?  Test director is go.

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Test conductor is go.

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ED02, ED03, EA04, EA05, EA06, 7,

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EA08, EA09, EA11, EA12, ED01, ED02,

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ED03, Opening the thrust…EGC.

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Nice.

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Strapdown test 4 is a simulation

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of a full length flight.  If you

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look at the infrared video, you

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can see the thrusters pulsing

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just like it would if it was

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actually flying.  The lander

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thinks that it’s flying around

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right now, so the occasional

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burst of steam that you see

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are the thrusters trying to

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keep it on course.

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These first few tests have the

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lander bolted to the ground.

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This way we can fire all of

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our thrusters and even if

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something were to go wrong,

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it’s not going to go anywhere.

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Strapdown test 5 proves our

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ability to abort any test in

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case an emergency arises.

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Countdown, nominal, emergency.

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And we have landed.

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Thanks for watching!  And tune

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in next time when we’ll take