NASA Opens Second Phase of $3.5 Million Lunar Excavation Competition
NASA Opens Second Phase: NASA has been busy lately this week, the agency is partnering with a new company call Deep Space Industries to launch a robotic spacecraft from Florida to the moon. This groundbreaking mission was just one of a series of recent developments for NASA, which recently announce that it’s now accepting proposals for its Lunar Exploration and Science Program Background of the Lunar Challenge Since the end of the Apollo program humans have been unable to explore further than Earth’s moon. With recent advances in technology, there is a renewe interest in returning to the moon and exploring its surface. The Lunar Challenge is a $2 million competition sponsore by. NASA to spur innovation in lunar exploration methods. The first phase of the challenge was to develop a low-cost method for landing a robot on the moon. The second phase of the challenge is to devise a mission plan that would send a manned spacecraft to explore and return data from one or more...