The $4-million dollars buried deep in the “Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2010″ will continue the innovative NASA’s Centennial Challenges program for space entrepreneurs and citizen inventors in the years ahead. NASA has sought new ideas for the a renewed innovation prizes.
William Pomerantz recently penned an article regarding the NASA prizes which included: the Regolith Excavation, Green Flight, Lunar Lander, Power Beaming, Tether, Astronaut Glove, and Lunar Oxygen Production Challenges. Only the Lunar Oxygen Production Challenge expired unclaimed from the $10-million program started in 2005 thereafter leading to the contests.
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