April 23, 2015 at 10:03Russian team wins 2015 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge
Participants in the Russian team received honorary diplomas and cash prizes ($ 3,000 from Boeing) for winning the NASA makeshift moon rovers competition in the obstacle course category of the university division, TASS writes .
The Human Exploration Rover Challenge was held April 17-18 at the Space Flight Center. Marshall in Huntsville (Alabama). NASA has been running this competition for over 20 years. A 1.2-kilometer obstacle course had craters and wreckage of asteroids, simulating the surface of the moon.
The teams that took first and second places in the Obstacle Course category were represented by units of the International Space Education Institute operating in Moscow and Leipzig. The first place was taken by Vadim Korzunov and Victoria Zakutina from Russia, the second - Ilya Borodin and Nadine Rossler from Germany.
In total, 47 teams from the USA, Russia, Germany, India and Mexico took part in the competition. List of winners.
More than a thousand photos are published on Flickr.
Russian team during the race.
Other moon rovers.
The Human Exploration Rover Challenge was held April 17-18 at the Space Flight Center. Marshall in Huntsville (Alabama). NASA has been running this competition for over 20 years. A 1.2-kilometer obstacle course had craters and wreckage of asteroids, simulating the surface of the moon.
The teams that took first and second places in the Obstacle Course category were represented by units of the International Space Education Institute operating in Moscow and Leipzig. The first place was taken by Vadim Korzunov and Victoria Zakutina from Russia, the second - Ilya Borodin and Nadine Rossler from Germany.
In total, 47 teams from the USA, Russia, Germany, India and Mexico took part in the competition. List of winners.
More than a thousand photos are published on Flickr.
Russian team during the race.
Other moon rovers.