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UW wins NASA grant to create a spacey contest

Post author By Alan Boyle
Post date May 7, 2020
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Cave rover team — NASA’s robotics team drives a test rover called CaveR into Valentine Cave at Lava Beds National Monument in California. One of the CaveR engineers is perched on a lava ledge, a marker of one of the lava flows in the cave. (NASA Photo)

NASA has awarded the University of Washington a $499,864 grant to develop a competition that calls on students to turn a simulated lava tube into a habitat suitable for harboring humans on the moon or Mars.

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Tags Artemis, NASA, Simulations, Space, University of Washington

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