The Centennial Challenges program is one of NASA’s shining stars, and frequently has incubated the cash-winning contestants into government-contracted entrepreneurs such as the winners of the Astronaut Glove, Lunar Lander, and Power Beaming challenges.
Talking to Sam Ortega about NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program and how the technologies and tools of the Maker Movement are appearing inside NASA.
Registration is now open for NASA’s first in-space challenge competition, offering the agency’s largest-ever prize purse. Your journey into lunar orbit begins at Moffett Field in January.
NASA is proposing a Centennial Challenge to build robotic rocket sample return systems.
Put your CubeSat into lunar orbit and see if it can send back data from the farthest reaches of space.
We chat with Sam Ortega manager of the Centennial Challenges Program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center about the program and how makers have participated in the past, and how they might participate in current and future challenges.
