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NASA Seeks Innovators for Lunar Waste Competition

September 30, 2024

Beth Ridgeway

By Savannah Bullard A new NASA competition, the LunaRecycle Challenge, is open and offering $3 million in prizes for innovations in recycling material waste on deep space missions. As NASA continues efforts toward long-duration human space travel, including building a sustained human presence on the Moon through its Artemis missions, the agency needs novel solutions…
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NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards

September 13, 2024

Jessica Taveau

NASA‘s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals under the Artemis campaign by challenging United States innovators to develop breakthrough power transmission and energy storage technologies that could enable long-duration Moon missions, concludes on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. “For astronauts to maintain…
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NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

August 19, 2024

Jessica Taveau

NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food. The competitors’ technologies address NASA’s need for sustainable food…
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California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge

June 13, 2024

Beth Ridgeway

By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competed in this challenge with the common goal of inventing robots that can excavate and transport the icy…
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NASA Invites Media to Watch Agency’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge Final Phase

June 7, 2024

Beth Ridgeway

NASA will announce the winners of the final phase of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge on Wednesday, June 12 at Alabama A&M University’s (AAMU) Agribition Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The challenge aims to develop new technologies that could support a sustained human presence on the Moon by the end of the decade. Media and…
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Meet the Simunauts: Ohio State Students to Test Space Food Solutions for NASA

June 5, 2024

Beth Ridgeway

By Savannah Bullard NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge kicks off its final eight-week demonstration this month, and a new crew is running the show. NASA’s partner for the Deep Space Food Challenge, the Methuselah Foundation, has teamed up with Ohio State University in Columbus to facilitate the challenge’s third and final phase. The university is…
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NASA Taps Alabama A&M University to Host Break the Ice Lunar Challenge

February 1, 2024

Beth Ridgeway

By Savannah Bullard NASA has selected Alabama A&M University’s Agribition Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to host the final level of the agency’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, using indoor and outdoor space to ground test the finalists’ solutions. The challenge opened in 2020 to find novel solutions for excavating icy lunar regolith and delivering acquired…
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Six Finalists Named in NASA’s $3.5 Million Break the Ice Challenge

December 6, 2023

Beth Ridgeway

By Savannah Bullard The stage is set for the finale of NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. Conceived in 2020, Break the Ice tasked innovators with creating robotic systems that can traverse the volatile terrain of the Lunar South Pole. These robots must be able to dig into the Moon’s regolith – the dusty, icy…
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Cube Quest Concludes: Wins, Lessons Learned from Centennial Challenge

November 16, 2023

Beth Ridgeway

By Savannah Bullard Artemis I launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 16, 2022, penning a new era of space exploration and inching the agency closer to sending the first woman and first person of color to the lunar surface. Aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket were 10 small satellites, no…
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NASA Seeks Innovators for Lunar Waste Competition

NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards

NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge

NASA Invites Media to Watch Agency’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge Final Phase

Meet the Simunauts: Ohio State Students to Test Space Food Solutions for NASA

NASA Taps Alabama A&M University to Host Break the Ice Lunar Challenge

Six Finalists Named in NASA’s $3.5 Million Break the Ice Challenge

Cube Quest Concludes: Wins, Lessons Learned from Centennial Challenge

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