New Mars Forums

NASA is planning prize contests similar to the http://www.ansarixprize.org/]ANSARI X PRIZE and the http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/]DARPA Grand Challenge. The contests are called http://centennialchallenges.nasa.gov/]Centennial Challenges, and NASA will hold a workshop June 15-16, 2004 (registration deadline: June 4, 2004) in Washington, DC to gather ideas and develop rules. Current ideas (download http://centennialchallenges.nasa.gov/wo … .xls]Excel spreadsheet) include: lunar robotic landings, Mars and asteroid microspacecraft missions, robotic triathalon, Antarctic rover traverse, lunar resource utilization and nanotube tether. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial … ]Wikipedia has good coverage.