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Science & Breakthroughs

NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies

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NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist’s rendering depicting lunar surface operations at a future base in the lunar South Pole. NASA NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace innovation that could help the agency envision a future on the Moon shaped by new technology. The latest NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts - Academic Linkage (RASC-AL)

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