The Atlantic has a heartwarming story about the little flying robot that could (if only we’d let it)… a plucky little space-drone named Morpheus:
While it may never fly in space in its current form, Morpheus is designed to be a useful prototype mission for the space agency, something that engineers can learn and borrow ideas and mechanisms from. It runs on liquid oxygen and methane, two fuels which could be made on other planets. It’s also designed to land on rocky or unstable terrain—notice how, at the end of this video, it lands on soil that’s downright Martianesque.
Yeah, there’s a video: