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| NASA's Prize Program for the Citizen Inventor |
In December 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, two bicycle mechanics working with no government support, initiated the age of powered flight with their success at Kitty Hawk. NASA’s Prize Program honors the spirit of the Wright Brothers and other independent inventors by acknowledging the centennial of the first powered flight in 2003. The NASA Centennial Challenges program also recognizes that the rapid and dramatic progress in aeronautics in the early years of the first century of flight was often driven by prize competitions.
To see more about the Centennial of Flight go to: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/improvingflight/cof_main.html
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The Centennial Challenges seek to:
- Drive progress in aerospace technology of value to NASA's missions
- Encourage the participation of independent teams, individual inventors, student groups and private companies of all sizes in aerospace research and development
- Find the most innovative solutions to technical challenges through competition and cooperation
Seven Current Challenges
Locations of Competitors, Competitions and Organizers
Future NASA Prizes
Pending future funding, prizes are envisioned for new Challenges to support NASA Missions and to benefit the Nation.
For example:
- Communications
- Alternative Energy
- Lunar Science
- Long-duration Spaceflight, radiation shielding, life support
- Clean, quiet aircraft
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