Reinventing the wheel, literally: Mines team excels at NASA competition
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More than 6,000 years after its invention, a team of Colorado School of Mines students is working to improve on one of humanity’s most important pieces of technology – the wheel. But the design they created won’t be for Earth-based purposes.
The lightweight, flexible, long service-life wheel and tire they’re designing needs to be able to skillfully traverse the rugged surface of the Moon, and NASA is taking notice of their novel approach in designing a rover wheel for next-generation lunar...