The students will be faster than NASA — and they’ll have a lunar rover as early as May

Carnegie Mellon University is set to make history in a month’s time. The protagonist is called Iris – and he (es) will have a cultural company.

And the Moon is once again a recurring topic in the news, decades later.

Earlier this week, NASA introduced the four astronauts who will go to the Moon in 2024; That is, 52 years after the last Apollo mission.

But about four hours away from the US space agency’s headquarters, Carnegie Mellon University is poised to make history, in a similar vein.

A project from that university, consisting mainly of students, will send a file The first American spacecraft to the moon. before NASA.

The protagonist is called irisAccording to the American University.

And it will happen in a month. The expected release date is May 4thWith the help of a United Launch Alliance rocket, which will take university projects to Earth’s home planet.

NASA Don’t put a trolley on the moon – A small autonomous vehicle equipped with various scientific instruments to explore the environment. Some have already been sent to Mars, like the legendary Curiosity, Oportunity (which “died” in 2019 after 15 years of exploring the Red Planet) and Perseverance.

The US space agency plans to put the first rover on the surface of the moon eventually 2024. But these students at the private university in Pittsburgh you will expect.

Hundreds of students have devoted thousands of hours to Iris. We’ve been working on this mission for years, and putting the launch date on the calendar is an exciting step forward.” ZME Sciences.

More specifically, there were approx. 300 students participate in this project. Iris will be tasked with capturing the images and returning them to Earth. would be over the moon to 60 hours (two and a half days).

It will be the first student-developed buggy, its smallest and lightest yet, and the first with a carbon fiber frame and wheels. he have furnace volume.

“In space, what matters is that you fly,” summed up Professor William Whitaker.

The rover will be joined MoonArkIt is a project from sculpture Specifically, 18 universities and organizations, 60 team members, and more than 250 artists, designers, educators, scientists, engineers, choreographers, poets, writers, and musicians worked.

It consists of titanium, platinum and sapphire chambers; It has hundreds of pictures, poems, music, nano objects, mechanisms and samples from the ground.

MoonArk aims to celebrate and preserve human creativity and knowledge for future generations.

It will be the first carving project in this type of mission. Indeed, it will be The first object associated with Earth culture to be placed on another planet.

It’s a museum piece sent to the moon.