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19 Jan 2023 85
NASA's HERC annually conducts an engineering design competition to include students all over the world in the next stage of human space exploration. The 61 teams from around the world that have been chosen to compete in the HERC 2023 have been announced by NASA.
Akarsh Chittineni, 15, and Sai Akshara Vemuri, 17, both teens from Andhra Pradesh have been chosen to compete in NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) 2023.
With the intention of automating a rover that can move on the surface of the Moon and Mars, these two young students have been occupied with the task of creating a multipurpose vehicle to perform unthinkable chores.
Sai Akshara Vemuri is a 12th-standard Delhi Public School student studying in Vijayawada. She is the student team safety officer in this project. During the competition, while the rover is traversing various terrains, she has to predict many failure methods and also come up with solutions to overcome them.
Akarsh Chittineni is a 10th grader at KCP Residential Public School in Vijayawada. As a tech lead, his job included finding the manufacturer and buying the materials, among other tasks relating to the materials.
The team along with four others will be designing, assembling, constructing, testing, and producing a human-powered Rover that can travel across the surface of Mars and the Moon.In April 2023, they will ship the rover they made to the United States, where they will represent India.