Project M (NASA)
Project M was a proposed NASA project to send a Robonaut to the Moon. This was originally hoped to be achieved in just a thousand days from the official announcement, but has since been shifted into Project Morpheus.History
NASA projected the project could have cost less than 200 million. An additional $250 million would have been needed for the launch vehicle. The project could have been accomplished in a thousand days or less once it had been approved. The project would have used a variation of lander developed by Armadillo Aerospace. On June 23, 2010, a flight carried a prototype known as the Guidance Embedded Navigator Integration Environment. GENIE was developed to demonstrate fully functional, real-time, guidance, navigation, and control code in a terrestrial rocket vehicle applicable to landing on the surface of the Moon.
