2007_05_20_archive

Nova presents the Great Robot Race

Cosmic Log sends us on a weekend field trip to The Great Robot Race.

This is an hour long show by Nova about the original DARPA Grand

Challenge in desert terrain, predescessor of the DARPA Urban

Challenge. It was originally aired last year, and is showing on May

22, 2007. It can also be viewed online at the link above. What might

be even more interesting to the web surfers that made it here is the

online video clip collection and other information about the

challenge.

Posted by Ray at 8:38 PM

Labels: DARPA Challenges, Military Prizes, non-space prizes

Wired Interview with Shana Dale and Pete Worden

Wired has an interview with NASA's Shana Dale as well as with Pete

Worden from NASA Ames. The interview covers a lot of ground, including

some space prize subjects like the recent Astronaut Glove challenge,

the Regolith Excavation challenge, and the SpaceShip One X PRIZE

flights. These prize subjects are sprinkled around a lot of other

material. A lot of the rest of it shows the context of the prizes,