Racers Get Ready! NASA's Great Moonbuggy Registration Begins
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Nov. 20, 2008
Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington
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Angela Storey
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
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RACERS GET READY! NASA'S GREAT MOONBUGGY REGISTRATION BEGINS
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Registration is open for NASA's 16th annual Great
Moonbuggy Race, taking place April 3-4, 2009, in Huntsville, Ala.
Each year, NASA challenges high schools and colleges across the
country and the world to design and build lightweight, human-powered
moonbuggies. Innovative students put their own spin on the historic
lunar rovers that carried Americans across the surface of the moon
during the Apollo era. Builders with "the right stuff" then converge
on Huntsville to test their engineering savvy - and their endurance.
The race was founded at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville in 1994. The U.S. Space and Rocket Center hosts the
two-day event. The nationally renowned space museum and tourist
attraction constructs a punishing course - a half-mile of hills and
craters simulating the lunar surface - on the looping sidewalks and
paths around its grounds.
Participating institutions may register up to two moonbuggies and
teams each year. Registration for the 2009 race closes Feb. 1. For
complete rules, moonbuggy design parameters and registration, visit:
http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov
High school teams will compete April 3. College teams will take the
course April 4. Prizes are awarded to the three teams in each
division that finish with the fastest race times. NASA and industry
sponsors present additional awards for innovative buggy design, team
spirit, best newcomer and other achievements.
Participation in the race has increased annually from just eight
college teams in 1994 to 46 high school and college teams in 2008,
with hundreds of students coming from 17 states, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, India and Germany to participate.
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