NASA's EDC gives students from kindergarten through 12th grade the opportunity to play a unique role in the future of human spaceflight.
Register students for the virtual crew before March 14, 2014.
A team of UMass Lowell robotics undergraduate and graduate students, called the "Rover Hawks," beat seven other teams from nine universities from across the country to take home the top prize in an engineering contest sponsored by NASA and organized by the National Institute of Aerospace.
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, has resumed driving after the holidays and was able to pull within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River."
Snake River is a thin curving line of darker rock cutting through flatter rocks and jutting above sand. Curiosity's science team plans to get a closer look at it before proceeding to other nearby rocks.
As you may have noticed there is now a Twitter feed on the right side of the Robotic Alliance Project's webpage! We would like to invite everyone to follow us on twitter and help spread the word about the Robotics Alliance Project and NASA! We plan on using Twitter to post about announcements, new features, and much more!