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NASA Will Award You $5,000 For Your Finest Mars City Idea

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-to-mars dept.

coondoggie writes with this snippet from Network World: NASA this week said it would look to the public for cool ideas on how to build a sustainable environment on Mars with the best plan earning as much as $5,000. With the Journey to Mars Challenge, NASA wants applicants to describe one or more Mars surface systems or capabilities and operations that are needed to set up and establish a technically achievable, economically sustainable human living space on the red planet. Think air, water, food, communications systems and the like.

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  1. Screw Mars! by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Build a floating city in the upper atmosphere of Venus.