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NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge 
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NASA named a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first prize winner for Phase 2 of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, which focused on developing solutions for reducing waste during missions to the Moon or…

August 28, 2026
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NASA Invites Media to LunaRecycle Challenge Finale Event in Alabama
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NASA will announce the winners of the final phase of its LunaRecycle Challenge on Friday, Aug. 28, at The University…

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NASA TechLeap Prize: Orbital Clarity Challenge
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The Orbital Clarity Challenge — the sixth in the NASA TechLeap Prize series — is a collaborative effort between NASA’s Heliophysics…

August 19, 2026
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NASA Student Aviation Challenge Focuses on Nation’s Infrastructure
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NASA’s next Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to imagine innovative new ways aircraft could inspect land-based infrastructure,…

August 18, 2026
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NASA Challenge Tests Wheel Designs for Moon Base Mobility
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As NASA prepares to establish the Moon Base, advancing surface mobility will be key to helping crews and robotic systems travel farther across the lunar…

August 17, 2026
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NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies 
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NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace…

August 14, 2026
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Department of Health and Human Services Digital Stockpile & Manufacturing Response Network Challenge
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NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA…

June 16, 2026
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NASA Announces Winners of 2026 University Innovation Competition 
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NASA announced the Massachusetts Institute of Technology project, Exploration-Class Lunar Integrated Power SystEm, as the first place winner for the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition, which challenges students to bridge…

June 5, 2026
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NASA Space Roboticist Challenge
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The Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) mission will launch a robotic arm, with seven degrees of freedom, to low Earth orbit.…

June 2, 2026
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