Teams from engineering college in India awarded by NASA

Monday, 25 April 2011, 15:41 IST   |    18 Comments
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Teams from engineering college in India awarded by NASA
New Delhi: Six teams from different engineering colleges of India were awarded in a competition organised by international space agency NASA, for designing a lunar vehicle for future expeditions to the moon. The competition -- Great Moonbuggy Race competition challenges the students to tackle several engineering problems dealt with by Apollo-era lunar rover developers at the Marshall Center in the late 1960s. Students from high school and college are supposed to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered rovers called "moonbuggies". This year 84 teams, six from India, of enterprising future engineers demonstrated the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the event. The participating students were required to design a vehicle that would address a series of engineering problems that are similar to those faced by the original Moonbuggy team. Each Moonbuggy was supposed to be human powered and carried two students, one female and one male, over a half-mile simulated lunar terrain course including "craters", rocks, "lava" ridges, inclines and "lunar" soil.
Source: PTI