The 14-member MTSU moon buggy team brought home the Neil Armstrong Best Design Award, bestowed by judges on the MTSU Team 2 entry nicknamed “The Beast,” in the recent NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge in Huntsville, Ala.

The event challenges high school, college and university students to design, construct, test and race lightweight, human-powered rovers capable of performing in the demanding environments to be explored by future space voyagers.

Team captain Ryan Miller, a senior electro-mechanical engineering major from Chattanooga, Tenn., led the design effort, which began in the summer of 2013.

To learn more about the project, visit http://mtsunews.com/moon-buggy-team-earns-award.