NASA and the Spaceward Foundation awarded $900,000 to LaserMotive LLC of Seattle, WA for their winning performance in the Power Beaming Challenge competition at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Centennial of Flight
In December 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, two bicycle mechanics working with no government support, initiated the age of powered flight with their success at Kitty Hawk. NASAs Prize Program honors the spirit of the Wright Brothers and other independent inventors by acknowledging the centennial of the first powered flight in 2003. The NASA Centennial Challenges program also recognizes that the rapid and dramatic progress in aeronautics in the early years of the first century of flight was often driven by prize competitions.
"If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted."
Sir Francis Bacon
(1561‐1626)
Power Beaming Features
LaserMotive LLC Wins Prize in Power Beaming Challenge
2009 Prizewinners Recognition Ceremony
NASA Admimistrator Charlie Bolden along with senior NASA officials Doug Comstock and Andy Petro, acknowledges winners and organizers of NASA’s 2009 Centennial Challenges.
Power Beaming Challenge
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Sponsors Sought For NASA's Centennial Challenges Competitions
06.14.10 - NASA is seeking private and corporate sponsors for the Centennial Challenges.
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NASA Honors 2009 Centennial Challenges Winners
02.18.10 - NASA will honor the achievements of the 2009 Centennial Challenges prize winners and competition hosts with a technical symposium Feb. 25 and a recognition ceremony Feb. 26.
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Garage Inventors →
04.22.10
In garages, basements, a Quonset hut and even NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, home inventors are creating amazing things in the 21st century.