Location
Mojave East
Topic Area
SPACE
Abstract
NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race, held annually in at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is an engineering design challenge that asks teams of student engineers to design a human-‐powered vehicle capable of traversing a simulated lunar surface. However, there is an interesCng sCpulaCon in the design of the moonbuggy: it must be able to be transported in a 4x4x4 foot cube, echoing the design constraint faced by the engineers who built the Lunar Roving Vehicles used by the astronauts of the later Apollo missions. The vehicle in this proposal, Ocelot, designed by the Society of Women Engineers at Embry-‐Riddle AeronauCcal University’s PrescoF campus, is intended to a contender in the 2014 Moonbuggy Race, and builds off of the ideas shared by veteran parCcipants of the Race as well as shoring up innovaCve ideas from the design team.
Start Date
18-1-2014 10:30 AM
Scholarly Commons Citation
Fortes, Estelle; Taylor, Aaron; Talerico, Caitlin; Chow, Jessica; Turcios, Jessica; Perry, Johnnie; Beck, Joshua; Martin-Gonzalez, Juana Cecilia; Ferguson, Lisa; Branscomb, Michaela; Sabliny, Mo; VanSickle, Raeann; Pearson, Sarah; Dryer, Sierra; Henney, Zach; and Haven, Brenda, "NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge" (2014). Aviation / Aeronautics / Aerospace International Research Conference. 14.
https://commons.erau.edu/aircon/2014_Challenges_Facing_our_Industry/january-18-2014/14
NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge
Mojave East
NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race, held annually in at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is an engineering design challenge that asks teams of student engineers to design a human-‐powered vehicle capable of traversing a simulated lunar surface. However, there is an interesCng sCpulaCon in the design of the moonbuggy: it must be able to be transported in a 4x4x4 foot cube, echoing the design constraint faced by the engineers who built the Lunar Roving Vehicles used by the astronauts of the later Apollo missions. The vehicle in this proposal, Ocelot, designed by the Society of Women Engineers at Embry-‐Riddle AeronauCcal University’s PrescoF campus, is intended to a contender in the 2014 Moonbuggy Race, and builds off of the ideas shared by veteran parCcipants of the Race as well as shoring up innovaCve ideas from the design team.