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and welcome to the kennedy space center

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in the astronaut hall of fame for the

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first ever little bikes planning

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competition we're gonna have a great

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time today 22 teams of undergraduate and

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graduate students from throughout the

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country tested their robot designs in a

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head-to-head challenge at the u.s

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astronaut hall of fame near nasa's

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kennedy space center florida may 27 and

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teams remotely controlled their

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excavators or luna bots to determine

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which one could collect the most

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simulated lunar regolith or dirt in a

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given time the first place winning team

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was montana state university whose

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lunabot excavated 21.6 kilograms or

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about 47 pounds of dirt within 15

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minutes they received a 5 000

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scholarship provided by nasa's

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exploration systems mission directorate