NASA Centennial Challenges

Links

• Centennial Challenges Home Page
• NASA's Prize Program Authorization Language
  •  NASA Authorization Act of 2005-Prizes.pdf
• Allied Organizations
  • California Space Authority/California Space Education & Workforce Institute
  • CAFE Foundation
  • X PRIZE Foundation
  • Volanz Aerospace
  • Spaceward Foundation
• Competitions
  • Lunar Regolith Excavation
  • General Aviation Technology
  • Power Beaming & Tether
  • Astronaut Glove
  • Lunar Lander

Documents

• Reports
  •  2005.09.08 Prize Competitions and NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program.pdf
  •  Prizes, Prize Culture, and NASA's Centennial Challenges.pdf
  •  2004.10.26 CC Workshop report.pdf
• Articles
  •  2007.07.01 New York Times Magazine Article "The Amateur's Hour!" by Jack Hitt

    (File size: 11MB)

• Press Releases
  •  2005.03.22 Press Advisory 05-044.pdf
  •  2005.03.23 Press Release 05-083.pdf
  •  2004.06.03 Press Release 04-179.pdf
  •  2004.11.05 Special Note 041105-003.pdf
  •  2004.04.29 Press Release 04-144.pdf
  •  2005.07.28 Press Release 05-204.pdf
  •  2005.05.19 NASA-FSRI PR 05-128.pdf
  •  2005.10.11 NASA-XPF PR 05-341.pdf
  •  2005.09.20 NASA-CSEWI PR 05-273.pdf
  •  2005.07.22 Press Release 05-189.pdf
  •  2006.05.05 Press Release 06-211.pdf
  •  2006.02.08 Press Release 06-057.pdf
  •  2006.04.18 Press Release 06-189.pdf
  •  2005.10.24 Press Release 05-347.pdf 

Radio Interviews

• 11 Feb 2007 interview with Ken Davidian on The Space Show with host Dr. David Livingston
  • Link to mp3 file
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Centennial Challenges Success Stories

• Astronaut Glove Challenge
  • Peter Homer Wins 2007 Astronaut Glove Challenge at New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT
    • Starts a company called FlagSuit LLC, providing pressure gloves to Orbital Outfitters, manufacturers of low-cost pressure suits for emerging suborbital tourism companies.
    • 2008.10.23 - Charles Lurio reports that Orbital Outfitters is part of a team with Texas A&M and Dittmar Associates that has won a NASA contract to develop a concept for an advanced space suit.
• Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge
  • Armadillo Aerospace competes with their LOx-Alcohol Quad vehicle named "Pixel" in, but does not win, the 2006 competition during the X PRIZE Cup event in Las Cruces, NM.
    • AA is approached by multiple space agencies and prime aerospace contractors to use their Quad vehicles for technology development work.
    • AA receives an SBIR Phase 1 award from Air Force Research Lab.
  • AA competes with their LOx-Alcohol Mod vehicle in, but does not win, the 2007 competition during the X PRIZE Cup event in Alamogordo, NM.
    • AA receives a NASA IPP Seed Fund award to develop a LOx-Methane engine.
    • AA further develops their 2,500 lbf propulsion system for use in the Rocket Racing League's Velocity XL-5 airframe. Successful demonstration of the system on 25-26 Aug 2008 leads to 6 orders (1 for the test system and an additional 5 for the other RRL aircraft). RRL Press Release
  • AA competes with the MOD and Quad vehicles in the 2008 LLC competition.
    • Announces creation of suborbital company: Rocket Racing Inc., Armadillo Aerospace and New Mexico Create Joint Venture to Launch Private Suborbital Space Transportation Business
    • AA successfully completes Level 1 of the 2008 LLC, winning the first prize purse of $350,000.