NASA Opens Call for 20th Annual Student Competition to Design Space Exploration Concepts
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The 2022 RASC-AL Challenge invites undergraduate and graduate students in STEM-related fields to submit ideas to help NASA extend human exploration.
Credits: NASA/NIA
Undergraduate and graduate students in STEM-related fields are invited to develop concepts for the 2022 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition that will help extend humanity’s presence further into the solar system.
NASA’s RASC-AL competition challenges student teams to incorporate coursework into relevant and timely space exploration objectives that help fill in knowledge gaps. Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2022, RASC-AL is one of NASA’s longest running higher education competitions.
The 2022 themes address capabilities critical for operating on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Ranging from operations for extending mobility and enabling sample return on the Moon to large-scale in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) of water on Mars, each team’s theme proposals should address novel and robust applications to support expanding humanity’s ability to thrive beyond Earth.
The 2022 themes are:
Portable Utility Pallet
Universal Sample Containment System
Mars Water-Based ISRU Architecture
SuitPort Logistics Carrier (SPLC)
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the program, teams are encouraged for the first time to build a prototype to showcase at a culminating forum. Bonus points may be awarded to these teams based on their prototype.
“We are excited the bring the prototyping component into the competition,” said Pat Troutman, human exploration strategic analysis lead at NASA’s Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Virginia. “The themes support the future of space exploration at NASA, helping to fill capability gaps to get humans back to the Moon sustainably under Artemis, and then to Mars. Students are going to bring some excellent ideas to the table for us to consider and see with our own eyes through these prototypes. This will be a fun competition.”
Interested student teams and their faculty advisors should submit a Notice of Intent by October 14, 2021, and submit proposals and videos by March 1, 2022. Respondents are asked to pay special attention to the following proposal expectations:
Synergistic applications of NASA’s planned current investments
Supporting engineering analysis and justification of assumptions
Unique combinations of the planned elements with new innovative approaches / capabilities / technologies to support crewed and robotic exploration of the solar system
Realistic assessment of costs for technology maturation, system development, and production and operations
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RASC-AL 2022 banner
The 2022 RASC-AL Challenge invites undergraduate and graduate students in STEM-related fields to submit ideas to help NASA extend human exploration.
Credits: NASA/NIA
Undergraduate and graduate students in STEM-related fields are invited to develop concepts for the 2022 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition that will help extend humanity’s presence further into the solar system.
NASA’s RASC-AL competition challenges student
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