{"28021":{"#nid":"28021","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Students Win NASA\/NIA Moon Design Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGraduate students from Georgia Tech and North Carolina State University took first place honors in the 2009 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage, or RASC-AL, contest sponsored by NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA). They presented their work at a forum in Cocoa Beach, Fla.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the graduate division, a team of Georgia Tech and North Carolina State University students studying at NIA won first place for their project titled, \u0022Reusable Lunar Transportation Architecture Utilizing Orbital Propellant Depots.\u0022 Team members included Georgia Tech students Erik Axdahl, Patrick Chai, Michael Grimes, Robert Rowland and Matthew Long along with John Gaebler and Rafael Lugo from NC State. Prof. Alan Wilhite of Georgia Tech served as the team\u0027s advisor.\n\nAn independent panel of space exploration experts drawn from NASA, industry and the academic community judged the entries. Teams scored points based on their final paper, oral presentations, outreach service, technicality and real-life concepts of the project.\n\nOver the course of the forum, students toured NASA\u0027s Kennedy Space Center, listened in on their peers\u0027 oral presentations and had the opportunity to network with one another and industry experts during the poster session and planned activities. \n\nFor more information about the 2009 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage competition and to view photos, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nianet.org\/rascal\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.nianet.org\/rascal\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.nianet.org\/rascal\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Graduate students from Georgia Tech and North Carolina State University took first place honors in the 2009 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage, or RASC-AL, contest sponsored by NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA).","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech, NC State team, top NASA\/NIA graduate contest."}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2009-06-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:29","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"264","name":"Aerospace; NASA; NIA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Don Fernandez\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}