Centennial Challenges

Artemis

Earth's Moon

Lunar Challenge Winner Tests Technology in NASA Thermal Vacuum Chamber

By Savannah Bullard One year after winning second place in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, members of the small business Starpath visited NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of their prize opportunity to test their upgraded lunar regolith excavation and transportation rover in the center’s 20-foot thermal vacuu

Posted September 26, 2025

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Awards $1.5 Million at Watts on the Moon Challenge Finale

NASA has awarded a total of $1.5 million to two U.S. teams for their novel technology solutions addressing energy distribution, management, and storage as part of the agency’s Watts on the Moon Challenge. The innovations from this challenge aim to support NASA’s Artemis missions, which will establish long-term human presence on the Moon.

Posted September 20, 2024

Artemis

Glenn Research Center

NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards

Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, with a correct phone number for the media contact at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.

Posted September 13, 2024

For Colleges & Universities

Learning Resources

NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food.

Posted August 19, 2024

Earth's Moon

Mars

Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing News

NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale

NASA invites the media and public to explore the nexus of space and food innovation at the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge symposium and winners’ announcement at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, Aug. 16. In 2019, NASA and the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) started the Deep Space Food […]

Posted August 2, 2024

General

California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge

By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competed in this challenge with the common goal of inventing robots that can excavate and transport the icy […]

Posted June 13, 2024

NASA Invites Media to Watch Agency’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge Final Phase

NASA will announce the winners of the final phase of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge on Wednesday, June 12 at Alabama A&M University’s (AAMU) Agribition Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The challenge aims to develop new technologies that could support a sustained human presence on the Moon by the end of the decade. Media and […]

Posted June 7, 2024

Meet the Simunauts: Ohio State Students to Test Space Food Solutions for NASA

By Savannah Bullard NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge kicks off its final eight-week demonstration this month, and a new crew is running the show. NASA’s partner for the Deep Space Food Challenge, the Methuselah Foundation, has teamed up with Ohio State University in Columbus to facilitate the challenge’s third and final phase.

Posted June 5, 2024