NASA's BIG Idea Challenge: Inflatables for Lunar Operations

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Description:
NASA is looking for novel and cost-effective technologies and applications that utilize inflatable systems to support Artemis missions. Artemis is the first step in the next era of human space exploration. The agency is engaging the university community through its BIG Idea Challenge and invites teams of undergraduate/graduate students and their advisors from US-based, Space Grant-affiliated colleges/universities to submit proposals to design, develop, and demonstrate novel uses of low Size, Weight, and Power inflatable technologies, structures, and systems for sustained lunar operations. Selected teams will receive awards ranging between $50,000 and $150,000 to bring their ideas to life. Finalist teams will spend nine months further designing, developing, building, and testing their proposed concepts, which they will present to a panel of NASA and industry judges.

NASA's BIG Idea Challenge is an engineering design competition supporting NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate's Game Changing Development Program's efforts to rapidly mature innovating and high-impact capabilities and technologies for infusion in a broad array of future NASA missions.

Visit the Challenge website for more information, including a comprehensive set of guidelines and important dates.

Not a Space Grant member? No problem! Non-Space Grant affiliated universities may partner with a Space Grant affiliated academic institution who takes a primary role on the project.

When selecting proposals, NASA is actively looking to expand submissions from new institutions, diverse teams, interdisciplinary teams, partnering teams, and Minority Serving Institutions.


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