LunOrediggers

Team Name: LunOrediggers

Excavator Name: LASER (Lunar Application of Science and Engineering Rover)

Team Leader: Mark Gefreh

City, State: Golden, Colorado

Team URL: www.csmnerds.org

Team Background:
The LunOrediggers are a group of 17 students from the Colorado School of Mines. All of the students are strongly motivated by desire to take part in the next space revolution. Our team has a diversified backgrounds and representing 8 different majors on campus and ranging in age from sophomores to graduate students. Our goals include, researching lunar technology and developing undergraduate student opportunities in an engineering environment. Our group is supported on campus by the Center for Space Resources. Our group started building a lunar excavator prototype in 2006. That project has transformed into our entry into the 2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge.

Why did your team decide to pursue the Regolith Excavation Challenge?
"Our team has been interested in lunar excavation for several years and saw the challenge as an excellent opportunity to push ourselves. We felt that we had the background and resources to provide a competitive design and compete at a national level."