Queen's University students compete in NASA lunar robotics challenge

Ten engineering students from Queen's University Belfast flew to Florida in October to take part in NASA's Lunabotics competition. The students, who belong to Queen's Propulsion Lab, had already won the UK version of the contest earlier in the year. Their robot was designed and built in their own university lab. In the competition, teams must build a rover that can dig up material from a lunar surface, move over obstacles, and use the material to build a wall. The contest follows NASA engineering principles and draws teams from around the world. This year, universities from Australia, India and the United States also competed. The competition gives students hands-on experience with technology that could one day support real missions to the Moon.