Germany triumphs in NASA's 'Great Moonbuggy Race'
Published: 11 Apr 10 12:12 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20100411-26475.html
"Team Germany" from Leipzig has won the US Space Administration's "Great Moonbuggy Race," where student design, build and race vehicles that tackle challenges faced by engineers of the lunar rover.
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Stefan Martini from Munich and Stephanie Fleischer from Oberschleißheim, both 19, finished the roughly half-mile course with its twisting curves, gravel pits and other obstacles simulating lunar surface conditions, in 3 minutes 37 seconds.
"It was a tough race," said ISEI director Ralf Heckel. "The first four finishes were only four seconds apart."
A team from the University of Puerto Rico in Humacao won the first prize in the university division.
The teams beat out more than 70 other groups from 18 US states and Puerto Rico as well as from Canada, India and Romania.
"The Great Moonbuggy Race" recalls the challenges that engineers faced in the late 1960s, when they were designing the original Apollo-era lunar rover, which explored the surface of the moon in the early 1970s.
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My point was, despite the extreme flag waving. The US is dependent on foreigner for most everything, of value anyway. There are those who carry on with the German brain-drain BS. BUT if one looks for real innovation and excellence, it usually doesn't come from the US.
So you can take the chip off of your shoulder.
There isn't this kind of innovation in Germany because some germans can't get too far away from the government socilaist teat! So sorry, so true. I'll remind my Bio-mechanical engineer and my Bio-chemical engineer son about your no-innovation comments.
But in any case THEY WON, and apparently your "Bio-mechanical engineer and my Bio-chemical engineer son" weren't even in the same league.
A BIG consideration that you're missed, MOST basic science research in the US AND development costs are sponsored by the government for military purposes. Yes that's right that "teat" thing again.
What are you talking about? The Russians were NOT so much more advanced. Read a little before you make such uninformed comments. The Apollo/Saturn missions were some of the most documented events in our history. Read "Digital Apollo" to see how much more advanced the US was in terms of the technology used to get to the moon. However, I will not take away the many "firsts" the former Soviets had in the Space Race.
And what do you mean by "claiming"? Are you one of those nuts that think the landing was faked? I am quite sure the Soviets would've been he first to claim fraud. Sounds like you need some of the Buzz Aldrin treatment.
"I want to correct the editor of this article: There was no german team winning. In Huntsville were selected students from Germany, Russia and USA as part of a multinational team. The International Space Education Institute ist locate in Leipzig/Germany were the following space scientists worked: Eberhard Rees (former MSFC-Director), Prof. von Puttkamer (NASA-HQ), Prof. Harry Ruppe (founder of the 1st professorship for spaceflight in Germany), Sergej Korolev (sputnik´s chief designer).
This Moonbuggy were designed by students from: Russia, Germany, USA, England, Hungaria, Ukraine, Malaysia). The blog of the team is written in: english, german, russian and spain. There are invited more students from Puerto Rico, India and China this year.
See: http://www.spaceeducation.eu
and: http://spaceeducation-eu.blogspot.com/
Everybody sleeps who dreams that one nation will explore the space. Only human can do this, no nations. Some of these new words in our future are: integrity, multinational and teamwork."
Ralf Heckel, principal
International Space Education Institute