August 2, 2008
Some Pictures from Saturday Morning
NASA Lunar Regolith Excavation Challenge at Cal Poly SLO
Dr. Walsh and Dean Noori of Cal Poly Engineering.
Dr. Noori addresses the teams, judges, and spectators at the beginning of the day.
There are 8 tons of JSC-1A lunar regolith simulant in the "sand box".
Trevor Foster of Empirical Systems Aerospace.
Team Waldbaum.
Next Step Robotics.
Closed circuit TV provided spectators with an "in the box" view.
Technology Ranch.
LunOrediggers.
California Space Authority.
As of 11am, no team had successfully moved any regolith into the collector.