Project M was a proposed NASA project to send a Robonaut to the Moon.[1] This was originally hoped to be achieved in just a thousand days from the official announcement, but was later shifted into Project Morpheus.[2]
The idea, known as Project M, is almost a guerrilla effort within NASA, cooked up a year ago by Stephen J. Altemus, the chief engineer at Johnson. He tapped into discretionary money, pulled in engineers to work on it part time, and horse-traded with companies and other NASA units to undertake preliminary planning and tests.
Project Morpheus started out as "Project M," a concept that called for landing a humanoid robot on the moon in 1,000 days. Then reality set in, and the project was redefined.