Human Exploration Rover Challenge - 2024

The 2024 Human Exploration Rover Challenge was held in Huntsville, Alabama. This event brings high school and college students from around the world to engage them in the next faze of human exploration.

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Welcome to NASA's 2024 Human Exploration Rover Challenge here in Huntsville, Alabama. For the past 30 years, NASA has presented student teams from across the world with an engineering design challenge to engage them in the next phase of human space exploration. As the agency prepares to send humans to the moon through the Artemis campaign, the Human Exploration Rover Challenge tasked students with designing, constructing, and testing technologies that we could use to explore the moon and traverse unique environmental terrains. The education these students are getting can now be applied to actual programs in the US and internationally. That's what they have to look forward to.

That's where these skills and this competition is up. Connected directly to Artemis. Even more so today than it was ten years ago. Even more so today than it was 30 years ago. This is directly feeding our workforce for the lunar terrain, vehicles and rovers that we need in the future and that we're actually working on.

So get ready. Get set and let's go. Take a look at NASA's 30th annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge. Students from 42 colleges and universities and 30 high schools from 24 states. The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and 12 other nations are competing in this year's Rover Challenge.

Students have spent months designing, assembling and testing their rovers for these two days of competition. Aside from making it through the course within the eight minute time limit, teams can also complete mission tasks along the way to earn points. The teams have actually been earning points all season long by completing design reviews and making sure that the rover meets challenge criteria.

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