New Challenges Await Teams in NASA´s Human Exploration Rover Challenge
(WorldNews Environment)

Six minutes of air, 14 obstacles and five mission tasks lay ahead of the intrepid explorers. Decisions on which obstacles and tasks to complete and which to bypass must be made by them and their teammates, knowing that at the end of six minutes, only a one-minute reserve of oxygen is left to get them to their home base. If they do not return home before the end of the seventh minute, all will be lost. The mission is not for the faint-hearted, nor will it be taking place on another world or with actual oxygen limitations. Instead, it is the newly designed NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge competition held at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in April 2018. The annual...