NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge

Abstract

Verbatim from Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons. Not paraphrased, not summarized.

NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge, 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. The rover must be able to be transported in a 5x5x5 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.

Authors

• Fortes, Gabriella E Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Henney, Zach Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Sabliny, Mo Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Perry, Johnnie Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Chow, Jessica Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Turcios, Jessica Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Taylor, Aaron Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Haven, Brenda Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Keywords

• Engineering Science and Materials
• Mechanical Engineering
• Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering