{
  "id": 1509530,
  "title": "NASA Challenge Tests Wheel Designs for Moon Base Mobility",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/nasa-challenge-tests-wheel-designs-for-moon-base-mobility",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-17T15:09:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NASA",
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    "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/nasa-challenge-tests-wheel-designs-for-moon-base-mobility/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "As NASA prepares to establish the Moon Base, advancing surface mobility will be key to helping crews and robotic systems travel farther across the lunar surface. To help advance that capability, the Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge invited public innovators to design and build next-generation lunar rover wheels. Five teams from 128 submissions and 49 countries advanced to the final phase of the…",
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        "outlet": "NASA Science",
        "title": "NASA Challenge Tests Wheel Designs for Moon Base Mobility",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/nasa-challenge-tests-wheel-designs-for-moon-base-mobility-1509589",
        "published": "2026-08-17T15:09:05.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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