Want to make some “easy” money? We have what you need! Indeed, NASA has decided to challenge you and if you can solve this problem, you could win the sum of 3 million dollars. We explain how to do it.
Nasa is challenging you contribution to solve a size problem for space
If you are resourceful, have lots of ideas running through your head and have a passion for space then you are in the right place. Indeed, NASA is trying to find a way to solve a problem that is increasingly impacting space over the years. No, it is not the problem of poop in space, NASA had already launched a competition for this question in 2016.
The American space agency will embark on new long-term lunar missions. Several explorations will take place in the coming years and who says new manned space missions says increase in human presence. This will necessarily imply an increase in space pollution. So, NASA wants find a way to generate less waste above our heads and also to know what to do with those that will have been left by the crews of these missions.
This is why NASA has launched a competition called LunaRecylce Challenge that aims to address these two challenges. This will take place in two stages: the first is to find a solution to a scenario imagined by NASA.
This is staged a one-year mission with technical specifications that participants must take into account in their projects. These will be to be submitted to the agency by March 31, 2025 and the winner will be announced in May.
You find the solution to space pollution, $3 million up for grabs
The second phase of the competition will be ask participants to build on the winning project and propose a functional prototype. For the moment, the details of this phase have not yet been fully revealed by NASA.
Candidates who want to participate in this LunaRecycle Challenge must register online and provide various documents. The key: if you win phase 1, it's $750,000 but overall, between the two phases and the two categories, Prototype Build, namely building a physical prototype for the space cleaning solution and Digitial Twin, a digital simulation of a recycling solution, it's $3 million to be won. So if you ever have ideas that you want to submit to NASA, don't hesitate, go for it!As Jean-Claude Dusse, played by the late Michel Blanc, would say: “On a misunderstanding, it can work“.