I have gotten a few comments posted about the next regolith excavation challenge, and I will address those, and some other issues here...

The 2007 challenge was a little strange. The first prize was $125,000, and that should have been enough to cause a lot of interest. Initially, I heard that over 100 teams expressed the intent to enter, but by the time I entered, only 9 were actually planning to attend, and only 4 showed up at the competition. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is 30 miles from the contest site, why weren't they there? I can only imagine that they all thought it would be too difficult.

I didn't enter until I determined that I could use a stationary machine, but I expected other teams to have fancy rovers picking up material and dumping it into the collector. I was very surprised when the other three teams all had stationary machines.

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