NASA's Astronaut Glove Design Competition

FleaPlus writes "NASA's Centennial Challenges program has announced its latest prize contest, the Astronaut Glove Challenge. The competition, a collaboration between NASA and the non-profit Volanz Aerospace, will be held in late 2006 and will award $250K to the team which produces the best-performing glove within contest parameters. The basic idea was originally proposed last year on Rand Simberg's Transterrestrial Musings blog to improve on current gloves, which have difficulties with remaining flexible while maintaining constant internal pressure in the vacuum of space. Previously-announced competitions include prizes for superstrong tethers, beaming power, and extracting oxygen from lunar regolith. These prizes are intended to lay the groundwork for larger competitions to further NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, possibly including 'an eight-figure prize for the first privately developed robotic moon lander.'"

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doesn't anyone else realize...

[KillShill]

that NASA has very little money left now.

they are virtually going by the seat of their pants in regards to funding now that the war criminals have started a war based on lies and forged documents in order to invade on behalf of a small foreign nation, which is overly represented by lobbying groups and spies in america and britain?

imagine what NASA could do with an extra 5-10 billion dollars.