NASA's Madcap Sci-Fi Plan Could Get an Android Moonwalking Within 3 Years

NASA's moonshot program is in tatters, and the shuttle's due to fly for the last time soon ... but it doesn't mean there's no exciting space news. For example: Did you know NASA could send an android to the moon inside just three years?

This crazy scheme even has a funky, mysterious title to go with its radical science and engineering: Project M. It's not funded at Agency level yet, let alone at the governmental level (from where dedicated funding would have to come) but it seems to be a...