WASHINGTON — Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, earned $350,000 in NASA prize money during the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge in Las Cruces, N.M. The challenge is a two-level, $2 million ...

Armadillo Aerospace, led by id Software founder John Carmack, successfully flew its Scorpius vehicle twice in two hours between a pair of landing pads to qualify for the $1 million top prize in NASA’s ...

Ten teams are signed up once again to compete in the NASA-sponsored Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, a $2 million contest to simulate a moon flight in the New Mexico desert. The X Prize ...

Armadillo Aerospace’s third attempt to win the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge ended with a crash, dashing its hopes of winning the $350,000 prize. The team’s rocket had 2.5 hours to ...

Upham, NM – New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced today a successful launch over the weekend of an advanced sounding rocket designed and built by Armadillo Aerospace. The launch ...

Armadillo Aerospace's Mod rocket craft rises from its pad at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., during an attempt to win $350,000 in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. Armadillo Aerospace ...

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M.--Armadillo Aerospace, the space company of Doom creator John Carmack, impressed the crowd here Saturday by flying and landing a privately built lunar spacecraft over 90 ...

After crashing the last time, Armadillo Aerospace won the $1,000,000 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge this Saturday. Needless to say, Doom-creator, Armadillo ...

New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced today a launch of a “STIG-A” rocket designed and built by Armadillo Aerospace. The launch took place from Spaceport America’s vertical launch ...

NASA delivered some punch to its Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program today by awarding about $475,000 to two companies looking to make a big sub-orbital space slash. NASA said the funds ...

In our cover story on the local private spaceflight pioneers at Armadillo Aerospace, we mentioned that the team’s contract work with NASA included testing a set of legs for a lunar lander based on an ...