Fairhope wins NASA moonbuggy award

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WALA) - NASA has announced the winners in the 17th annual Great Moonbuggy Race. The team representing the International Space Education Institute of Leipzig, Germany, won the high school division, and racers from the University of Puerto Rico in Humacao took first place in the college division.

The race is organized by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. It challenges students to design, build, and race lightweight, human-powered buggies that tackle many of the same engineering challenges dealt with by Apollo-era lunar rover developers at the Marshall Center in the late 1960s.

The race is hosted each year by the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.

The team from Fairhope High School won the Most Improved Award for the most dramatically improved engineering and performance.