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NASA Langley Announces the 2020 Student Art Contest

Photograph of a student's painting of a space settlement design from the Ames Research Center Archives.
Photograph of a painting entitled The Space Untangled (item 27). From the NASA Student Space Settlement Design Contest Collection, from a set of paintings created by students from Ryan International School in India.
Credit: NASA

NASA is going forward to the Moon in 2024, as part of a larger effort to land humans on Mars and beyond. “We Are Going” has become the agency’s mantra as engineers, researchers, and scientists work to develop and refine the technologies that will allow us to maintain a sustainable lunar presence and learn to live and work in space. “We Are Going” provides the imperative for landing the first woman and next man on the Moon and inspiring the Artemis generation.

“We Are Going” includes Americans of all ages. NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia is inviting students grades K-12 to creatively visualize NASA’s science, technology and human exploration activities in the 2020 NASA Art Contest, using the theme “We Are Going.” The contest is open to all children grades K-12 attending public, private, parochial and homeschools who are residents of the United States.

The Art Contest submission period begins Dec. 1, 2019  and concludes on Dec. 31, 2019 at midnight EST.

As NASA is focused on going back to the Moon, Langley is a key contributor to the agency’s space exploration missions, including Artemis. The center is contributing to NASA’s lunar spaceflight efforts, including developing and analyzing systems, concepts and architectures for Moon to Mars missions, radiation protection, in-space assembly structures and materials, and testing entry, descent and landing technologies.

The art contest is intended to illustrate where NASA is going next in the realms of research, development, missions and innovations that highlight NASA’s science, technology and human exploration activities which touch every aspect of our lives here on Earth.

We are asking schools, organizations, and community groups to encourage parents to submit one entry per student. A grand-prize winner will be selected from all entries and a first-place, second-place, third-place, and honorable-mention winner will be selected for each grade level.

Renowned artist Michael Kagan, whose space-themed paintings celebrate the tension between humanity and technology, will be a celebrity guest judge for the contest.

For more information on the 2020 NASA Art Contest, visit https://artcontest.larc.nasa.gov.

For more information on the Artemis program, visit www.nasa.gov/Artemis.

NASA Langley is a leader in more than just space technology. The center also focuses on aeronautics and earth science that makes a difference in the lives of Americans every day. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/Langley.

Eric Gillard
NASA Langley Research Center