Sun, Jun 27, 2010
Students Will Design, Manufacture, And Assemble Inflatable
Space Housing
It's a bit like dorms in space. NASA is challenging college
students to design concepts for inflatable habitat lofts for the
next generation of space explorers. The winning concepts may be
applied to the exploration habitats of the future.
The X-Hab Academic Innovation Competition is a university-level
challenge designed to encourage further studies in
spaceflight-related engineering and architecture disciplines. This
design competition requires undergraduate students to explore
NASA's work to develop space habitats, while also helping the
agency gather new and innovative ideas to complement its current
research and development.
Students will design, manufacture and assemble an inflatable
loft that will be integrated into NASA's operational hard-shell
prototype lab unit. The competition winner will participate in a
demonstration of the submitted design during the 2011 Desert
Research and Technology Studies, or a similar field test next
summer.
NASA's Exploration Mission Directorate and the Office of the
Chief Technologist's Innovative Partnerships Program are sponsoring
this new technology challenge. NASA is dedicated to supporting
research that enables sustained and affordable human and robotic
exploration. This educational competition contributes to the
agency's efforts to train and develop a highly skilled scientific,
engineering and technical workforce for the future.
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