Need Lunar Lander Ideas

[mrmorris]

<font color="yellow">"Sure, but I was thinking about something like the skycrane, but with a bungee instead of the tether. "</font><br /><br />Well one person suggested a bungee 'from the CM', and a second suggested a 'tether from a skycrane like MSL'. Since you indicated bungee and made no mention of a skycrane, the implication was you were considering a bungee from LLO.<br /><br />The skycrane doesn't actually buy anything for a lunar lander and adds complexity, additional failure modes, and weight. However, if the point is simply something different than the LM... there's no engineering reason why it couldn't be done.