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The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
About 1962-63 NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, issued a unique set of public relations pamphlets, featuring a small flap that covered part of the front page. The two examples in this series of images represent the Saturn V launch vehicle and the Lunar Module.
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
Nearly 100 teams took part in the 2019 Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held April 12-13 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The competition, hosted by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, challenges high school and college teams to design, build and test human-powered roving vehicles inspired by the Apollo lunar missions and future exploration missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. This year’s competition marked 25 years since the inaugural event.
Image credit: NASA/Emmett Given
Rover Challenge awards news release
USN RADM Hugh C. Haynsworth & stuck-up/uptight-looking entourage during a 1962 tour of MSFC.
This is what probably assured the good Admiral's admittance:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x95HEzzWP2o
Credit: Richard Carson
Seriously, what else could it’ve been...that commanding & charismatic ‘I’ve Got A Secret” stage presence three years prior...or his logistics experience, connections & clout?
;-)
Nearly 100 teams took part in the 2019 Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held April 12-13 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The competition, hosted by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, challenges high school and college teams to design, build and test human-powered roving vehicles inspired by the Apollo lunar missions and future exploration missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. This year’s competition marked 25 years since the inaugural event.
Image credit: NASA
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
A wonderful view, ca. 1961/62? of the Saturn V S-IC (first) stage, full-size ‘template’ mounted at one end of what I believe to be building 4705, at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). In the foreground is a “Y-Ring” for the S-IC bulkhead assembly, with a partial bulkhead visible to the far left. The arched bridge-like device allows technicians to work on the bulkhead without having to climb onto it, reducing the risk of damaging it. An F-1 engine mockup is visible behind it.
Early Saturn V tooling, fabrication and assembly methods/practices were tested, verified(?) and conducted at MSFC. Excellent reading pertaining to such, at:
history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/ch7.htm
The template in color, along with JFK:
www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-KN-C23681...
The F-1...and JFK:
www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-KN-C23678...
Credit: JFK Library website
High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Students came from across the U.S. as well as several foreign countries such as Brazil, Germany, India, and Mexico. This event, which is normally a 2 day event, was shortened to 1 day in 2018 due to adverse weather conditions.
These images show the mirrors being received at Marshall Space Flight Center and cryogenically tested by Ball Aerospace at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility.
Credit: Ball Aerospace
Segment of the art on the cover of a Marshall Space Flight Center pamphlet describing the newly adopted Lunar Orbit Rendezvous approach to a moon landing. It is included here as an example of some of the many LM configurations considered before the craft took its final form.
NASA art, artist unknown.
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
Successful first test-firing of S-IC-1 (the first flight booster of the Saturn V launch vehicle - destined for Apollo 4), on 17 February 1966. The firing, lasting 40.7 seconds, met all main test objectives.
On 24 & 25 February, MSFC technicians continued captive-firing tests of the first stage Saturn V launch vehicle (S-IC-1). MSFC scheduled the 25 February static firing for 125 seconds but had to terminate it after 83.2 seconds, when a red-line observer received an incorrect reading from a faulty transducer. However, MSFC scientists determined that in this second static firing in two days all criteria for the second S-IC-1 static firing were met and that no additional static firings were required.
Above (with additional photos) paraphrased and extracted from:
history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/part-7.htm
Per Wikimedia:
"The S-IC Static Test Stand was designed and constructed with the strength of hundreds of tons of steel and cement, planted down to bedrock 40 feet below ground level, and was required to hold down the brute force of the 7,500,000-pound thrust. The structure was topped by a crane with a 135-foot boom. With the boom in the up position, the stand was given an overall height of 405 feet, placing it among the highest structures in Alabama at the time. When the Saturn V S-IC first stage was placed upright in the stand , the five F-1 engine nozzles pointed downward on a 1,900-ton, water-cooled deflector. To prevent melting damage, water was sprayed through small holes in the deflector at the rate 320,000 gallons per minute."
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
Interior view of the Manufacturing Engineering Division (bldg 4705), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), ca. 1961/62(?), with (I'm guessing) various tooling items, jigs, stands, rocket parts 'n' pieces...for the Saturn I(?)...Saturn IB(?), Saturn V(?) launch vehicles, and full-size Saturn V S-IC (first stage) template on the back wall. Appropriately enough, the big dark corrugated cylindrical thing on the right is an S-IC thrust structure. And equally appropriately, that massive transporter in the foreground totes big things like that around. And that looks to be a giant keg on the far left. Work hard - play hard, right?! ;-)
On a slick high-gloss photo paper that has the feel of photo film, but thick, with a small precise notch in the lower right...much like vintage old-school camera film.
The BIG YELLOW THING (BYT) in use:
www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/espace_US/apollo/lanceurs/s...
www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/espace_US/apollo/lanceurs/s...
Credit: The fantastic capcomespace.net website
High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Students came from across the U.S. as well as several foreign countries such as Brazil, Germany, India, and Mexico. This event, which is normally a 2 day event, was shortened to 1 day in 2018 due to adverse weather conditions.
High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Students came from across the U.S. as well as several foreign countries such as Brazil, Germany, India, and Mexico. This event, which is normally a 2 day event, was shortened to 1 day in 2018 due to adverse weather conditions.
Liftoff of mr-3 (Mercury-redstone 3) Freedom ¦, manned suborbital flight. Astronaut shepard, alan, first man in space. May 5, 1961
ref: Lod 61c-884 (Mix file)
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Students came from across the U.S. as well as several foreign countries such as Brazil, Germany, India, and Mexico. This event, which is normally a 2 day event, was shortened to 1 day in 2018 due to adverse weather conditions.
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Students came from across the U.S. as well as several foreign countries such as Brazil, Germany, India, and Mexico. This event, which is normally a 2 day event, was shortened to 1 day in 2018 due to adverse weather conditions.
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release
The 2019 Lunar Rover Challenge Competition was hosted by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This annual event celebrated the 25th anniversary of what began as the Great Moonbuggy Race in 1994. High school and College teams from the United States and foreign countries competed. The awards ceremony was held at the adjacent Marriott on Saturday evening.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Rover Challenge awards news release