When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.A team navigates an obstacle course on an Earth-bound rover as part of NASA’s 2026 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. | Credit: USSRC/Megan HolbrookHundreds of students came together to design, build, and test rovers on an Earth obstacle course to prepare for the moon.Space exploration starts with a lot of hard work on Earth. And in this new photo, we can see a hardworking student team putting the pedal to the metal in a rover their team designed and built for NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC).What is it?Every year, hundreds of students from around the world participate in HERC, a nine-month long challenge to design and build human-powered or remote-controlled rovers that could be capable of traveling
