{"id":5500,"date":"2014-02-11T01:26:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T06:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2014-02-11T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T11:39:08","slug":"penn-states-lunar-lion-the-first-ever-university-led-mission-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/02\/penn-states-lunar-lion-the-first-ever-university-led-mission-to-the-moon.html","title":{"rendered":"Penn State&#8217;s Lunar Lion &#8211; the first ever university-led mission to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-XPRIZE-on-the-Moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5503\" alt=\"Penn State Lunar Lion XPRIZE on the Moon\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-XPRIZE-on-the-Moon-300x206.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-XPRIZE-on-the-Moon-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-XPRIZE-on-the-Moon-615x423.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-XPRIZE-on-the-Moon-120x82.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-XPRIZE-on-the-Moon.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The launch date is set, the spacecraft design is\u00a0\u00a0is complete, and at the moment, it looks like the <strong>Penn State Lunar Lion<\/strong> team might just win the Google Lunar Prize\u00a0by being the first non-government group ever to accomplish so technical a task.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E73FNNwEzYE\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next step in the race is to build and test the lander prototype. They are reaching out for crowd source funding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-SolidWorks-Model-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Penn State Lunar Lion SolidWorks Model 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-SolidWorks-Model-1-300x259.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beyond classroom theory, this project is giving students a chance to do rocket science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-SolidWorks-Model-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Penn State Lunar Lion SolidWorks Model 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Penn-State-Lunar-Lion-SolidWorks-Model-2-300x162.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information about this project is available <a title=\"Rocket Hub\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rockethub.com\/34210#description-tab\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<strong> Randall Brock<\/strong> to share with us what your students are doing with SolidWorks. Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch date is set, the spacecraft design is\u00a0\u00a0is complete, and at the moment, it looks like the Penn State Lunar Lion team might just win the Google Lunar Prize\u00a0by being the first non-government group ever to accomplish so technical<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/02\/penn-states-lunar-lion-the-first-ever-university-led-mission-to-the-moon.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5203,4015,5209],"tags":[5369,5368,5371,3931,5370],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-mechanical-engineering","category-physics-2","tag-lion","tag-lunar","tag-moon","tag-solidworks","tag-xprize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}