The team is student run under the direction of Dr. Alexander Rattner, a mechanical engineering professor at Penn State's Multiscale Thermal Fluids and Energy.
The craft is planned to be sent on a commercial launch vehicle which will send it into space and place it on a trajectory to the Moon.
It is then expected to make a controlled descent to the lunar surface where it will transmit high-resolution photographic images and video to the mission operations center at Penn State.
At the end of October 2013, the team successfully finished Phase 0, a series of tests that validated the rocket-testing procedure.
Puma was developed for constrained vertical flight, with guide cables restricting motion to a single axis.