NASA’s Journey to Mars program is offering prizes for solutions submitted from the public for three problems that need solving to help make it feasible to send humans to the Red Planet: NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge – NASA
The challenges are listed in the NASA Innovation Pavilion:
- Space Pioneering – Achieving Earth Independence – Award: $15,000 USD | Deadline: 7/06/15
- Reducing Exposure to Galactic Cosmic Rays through Active and Passive Shielding – Award: $29,000 USD Deadline: 6/29/15
- Flexible Sealing Device. A Device to Reversibly Join and Form an Airtight Seal Between the Edges of Fabric Materials – Award: $15,000 USD | Deadline: 6/17/15