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Results of NASA’s “The 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race”

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On April 7, 2008, NASA announced the winners of the high school and college divisions of its 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race.


International teams representing the United States, Canada, Germany, Puerto Rico, and India were participants of the race at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The race, held on April 4 and 5, 2008, consisted of a 0.7-mile (approximately 1.1-kilometer) course that contained simulated obstacles of lunar craters, Moon rocks, hardened lava ridges, inclines, lunar soil, and moondust.

Each team had to build its own moonbuggy, modeled after the lunar rovers used in the NASA Apollo program.

Not to give away all of the results (which appear at the end of the NASA article), however, high school teams from Kansas and Alabama and college teams from Indiana, Kentucky, and Ontario, Canada, are odds on favorites to get to the Moon first!

Great job by everyone!

Please read the entire story as told by Science@NASA author Dauna Coulter at “The 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race.”

For additional information on the race, read the iTWire article “Need a school project: Build a Moonbuggy for NASA."

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