{"id":5624,"date":"2013-12-11T01:06:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T01:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2013-12-11T01:06:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T01:06:28","slug":"nasa-morpheus-vehicle-flies-without-a-tether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5624","title":{"rendered":"NASA Morpheus vehicle flies without a tether"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/morpheuslander.jsc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Project Morpheus<\/a>\u00a0has moved their vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) vehicle (modeled after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armadilloaerospace.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Armadillo Aerospace<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:ArmadilloAerospace_Pixel_Attempt1_c.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">quad vehicles<\/a>) to Kennedy Space Center, where they can do un-tethered free flights. The first such free flight test took place today:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RlbTx4fo5Tw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Project Morpheus\u00a0has moved their vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) vehicle (modeled after Armadillo Aerospace&#8216;s quad vehicles) to Kennedy Space Center, where they can do un-tethered free flights. The first such free flight test took place today:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1sI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6857,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6857","url_meta":{"origin":5624,"position":0},"title":"Videos: Morpheus VTVL rocket test","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA\u2019s\u00a0Project Morpheus\u00a0flew their\u00a0Armadillo Aerospace\u00a0quad-style vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle on Tuesday at Kennedy Space Center. 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