Photo by Sandra M. Valdez/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Teammates (from left) Brian Lott, Kristin Cordwell and Erika DeBenedictis react after winning the top award in the 17th New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Their project, which evaluated how to use gravitational pull from planets and other solar bodies to assist space flights, was picked Tuesday as the best of 67 submissions.