1 Day and Counting (Part 3) - 6 Teams now Qualified !

October 19th, 2006

Six teams are now qualified for the Climber Competition.  They are the Kansas City Space Pirates, TurboCrawler, LiteWon, Snowstar, MClimber and USST.  More may make it tonight.

Below are some more pictures of today’s qualifying efforts.  As always, click on the thumbnail to view a larger version.

The crane holding the Test tether.

SpaceMiners voltaic cell array (including 4 cells that burned out during the initial qualification try and are now in the process of being replaced).

Two members of the SpaceMiners team with their Climber’s voltaic cell array.  On the left is Mark Rice and on the right is Paul Polanovich.

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