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What we are doing this year
What we are doing this year
This year, the Automotive Club is taking on an exciting new challenge: building our own Moon Buggy.
Our team will design and construct a fully working vehicle from scratch. Throughout the project, we will apply our engineering skills, creativity, and teamwork to develop a buggy capable of handling rough terrain while meeting real design constraints.
Size?
Size?
The buggy is full-size, and also remote-controlled (RC) we did this for the fun of having anone "drive it". It will be built at a 1:1 scale.
Why the moon buggy
Why the moon buggy
This year’s STEM show will focus on space, and what better project for the Automotive Club than the Moon Buggy itself? The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), commonly known as the Lunar Rover, was a battery-powered vehicle used by NASA astronauts to explore the Moon during the later Apollo missions. Developed by NASA in collaboration with Boeing and Delco Electronics, the rover allowed astronauts to travel farther, carry more equipment, and collect more lunar samples than ever before.
The History
The History
The Lunar Rover was first used during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, and later on Apollo 16 and Apollo 17. These missions demonstrated how valuable a rover could be for space exploration, with Apollo 17 covering over 35 kilometers on the Moon’s surface.
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