A team of University of Wyoming students have become the first from the cowboy State take part in NASA’s 2022 Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams engineering design challenge.
Known as the Wyoming Space Wranglers, five undergraduate students in the UW College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, designed and built the Cowboy Claw, a lunar reusable surface anchoring device. Team members were Cameron Ball, from Colorado Springs, Colo.; Forrest Bucholz, of Alpine; Reese Romero, from Cody; James Sheets, of Powell; and Daniel Wenger, from Vale, Ore.
Micro-g NExT encourages undergraduate students to design, build and test a tool or device that addresses an authentic, current space exploration challenge.
This year’s efforts were focused on the lunar surface operations of Artemis, NASA’s lunar exploration program.
The Wyoming Space Wranglers challenge was to design and manufacture an anchoring mechanism that can allow astronauts to tether themselves and their gear to the lunar surface.
photo NASA
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