84 Student Teams Set to Roll At 18th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 22, 2011 Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon’s surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, set for April 1-2 in Huntsville, Ala. The event challenges high school and college students to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered rovers – “moonbuggies” – which