Image: ‘VolcanoBot 2’, held by its creator, Carolyn Parcheta, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The bot is preparing for a journey into the depths of fissures in Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano....
Image: Mission Specialist Ellison S. Onizuka (left) posing with Pilot Loren J. Shriver (right) at mid-deck aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in January, 1985. Credit: NASA. Saturday, January 24, 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Hawaii astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka’s...
Team Incredibots pose with proud parents, mini robotic rovers, and a mock lunar lander at a PISCES planetary analogue test site near Hale Pohaku on Mauna Kea. The Incredibots, a team of Ohio youngsters who won the 2014 GLXP (Google Lunar X PRIZE) MoonBots Lego...
Former PISCES intern Nick Turner (right) with the UH Hilo SDAV team of researchers – Ryan Perroy (Left) and Arthur Cunningham (Center). Photo Credit: Hawaii Tribune Herald. Former PISCES intern and University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH) graduate Nick Turner is...
The Google Lunar XPRIZE has announced the winner of the 2014 MoonBots Challenge, awarding Team Incredibots of Columbus, Ohio with a grand prize visit to the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) in Hawaii. The team will arrive on-island...
