Kansas City Space Pirates Come Closest to Winning Power Beaming Climber Challenge Today

By Marc Boucher on October 21, 2007 12:57 PM | 0 Comments

The Kansas City Space Pirates came close to having a climb that would be considered a winning climb however they ran over the alloted time by approximately 18 seconds. The unofficial time recorded by NASA representative Ken Davidian was 1:18. And while their climber did perform well on the way up it experienced problems on the way down as panels started coming off as the picture below shows.

[The Kansas City Space Pirates climber ascending the ribbon in the finals competition. Click on image for larger version.]

[The Kansas City Space Pirates climber loses some of its panels during its descent in the the finals competition. Click on image for larger version.]

[The video is a little shaky as I was using my left hand
to shoot the video and my right hand to take pictures.]

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