Eighty-five years ago, the winner of the Oreig Prize winner, Charles Lindbergh, landed in Paris. Here's to The Spirit of St. Louis and Lucky Lindy! And here's all those in pursuit of the X PRIZE.
The Lunar Lion team was recently written up in "Alumni Insider" by the Penn State Alumni Association:
http://www.imakenews.com/psaanews/e_article002413305.cfm?x=bl3VFW8%2CbqM...
Dr. David Spencer, the Lunar Lion Deputy Team Leader, engages with students from State High about simulation and visualization of the Lunar Lion descent, landing and flight across the lunar surface.
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Lunar Lion students talk science and engineering and space at Exploration Day in State College.
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Watch the Lunar Lion team as we discuss our plans for the upcoming prototype development.
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Lunar Lion team members attended the Park Forest Elementary School's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) fair held in State College, PA.
Lunar Lion team member Bob Touchton discussed with parents and children various aspects of autonomous systems and how this technology may be used in the Lunar Lion project.
Lunar Lion Team lead Michael Paul met with Altoona Campus Chancellor Lori Bechtel-Wherry to discuss student involvement with the Lunar Lion project.
Allison Robertson, a journalism student at Penn State, wrote an article as part of her internship with the local paper, the Centre Daily Times.
I was pleased to open my morning paper and find her article on the front page! Thanks to the CDT for some great coverage and thanks to Allison for a great write up. Read the article here:
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/03/20/3132905/psu-team-takes-its-moonsho...
Dr. Sven Bilen shares the excitement of rocket science at Discovery Space children's musem in State College.







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