Surabhi Gupta
New Delhi, Apr 24 (PTI) Six teams from different engineering colleges of India were awarded in a competition organised by international space agency NASA, for designing a lunar vehicle for future expeditions to the moon.
The competition -- Great Moonbuggy Race competition challenges the students to tackle several engineering problems dealt with by Apollo-era lunar rover developers at the Marshall Center in the late 1960s.
Students from high school and college are supposed to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered rovers called "moonbuggies".
This year 84 teams, six from India, of enterprising future engineers demonstrated the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the event.
The participating students were required to design a vehicle that would address a series of engineering problems that are similar to those faced by the original Moonbuggy team.