NASA TechRise Student Challenge

Design an experiment to test on a high-altitude balloon.

Find Me on the Moon: NASA Lunar Navigation Challenge

Help NASA navigate in and around the lunar south pole.

NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge

NASA wants you to visualize the future of space exploration!

NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge

Forecast the number of arrivals at airports in the US.

Let It Go: (After Latching)

NASA is seeking innovative solutions for a synchronized antenna deployment system.

Space Waste Revolution Challenge

NASA needs innovative solutions for recycling food packaging and polymer waste in space and lunar missions.

South Pole Safety: Designing the NASA Lunar Rescue System

Create a compact, efficient system for astronaut rescue on the lunar surface.

NASA MarsXR 2 Challenge

This challenge is seeking the design and creation of new assets and scenarios for the new Mars XR Operations Support System (XOSS) environment, using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5.

Pushback to the Future: Predict Pushback Time at US Airports

The NAS is investing in new ways to bring vast amounts of data together with state-of-the-art machine learning to improve air travel for everyone. In order to optimize commercial aircraft flights, air traffic management systems need to be able to predict as many details about a flight as possible.

Tick Tick Bloom: Harmful Algal Bloom Detection Challenge

Your goal in this challenge is to use satellite imagery to detect and classify the severity of cyanobacteria blooms in small, inland water bodies.

Recycling Air Beyond our Earth Junior Challenge

This challenge is all about your ideas for how to maintain a breathable atmosphere inside an extraterrestrial habitat. 

NASA Particle Partition Challenge

Your design concept could help future astronauts breathe easy by contributing to the development of improved life support systems for future extraterrestrial habitats.

NASA MarsXR Challenge

This challenge is seeking developers to create a new Virtual Reality (XR) research, development, and testing environment to help prepare for the experiences and situations that will be encountered on Mars.

NASA HATTB

NASA needs a new software application called the Human-Autonomy Teaming Task Battery, or HATTB.

NASA TechLeap Prize: Autonomous Observation Challenge No. 1

Autonomous Observation Challenge No. 1, is looking for SmallSat observation technologies that can autonomously detect, locate, track, and collect data on transient events – both on Earth and beyond.

Moon Movers

NASA is seeking innovative concepts for the Artemis program to deliver pressurized logistics to the surface of the moon.

Future-Scaping Our Skies

The Future-Scaping Our Skies Challenge aims to understand how societal, technological, environmental, economic, regulatory, and political changes over the next 30 years could impact aviation and vice versa.

NASA's Lunar Delivery Challenge

We are looking for practical and cost-effective solutions to unload payloads to the lunar surface.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Ground Control Station Software Challenge Series

NASA needs a Ground Control Station software for small unmanned aircraft systems that can be safely used for live flight operations, while also providing the functionality necessary for researching advanced human-automation teaming concepts. Safety is critical when it comes to live small unmanned aircraft systems flight operations.

Lunar Deep Freeze Challenge

Seeking novel approaches to cryogenic containment that will allow lunar sample transport from the Moon to Earth. 

Moon Pod Essay Contest

Your challenge is to imagine leading a one-week expedition at the Moon’s South Pole – with the whole world cheering you on.

NASA Challenge: A Common Restraint and Mobility Aid System for Multiple Gravity Environments

NASA needs a common solution: a single system that will restrain crew members in microgravity, while being unobtrusive in gravity.

NASA's Lunar Loo Challenge

NASA’s Human Landing System Program is looking for a next-generation device that is smaller, more efficient, and capable of working in both microgravity and lunar gravity.

Reinvent the Rover Wheel Challenge

We want you to reinvent the wheel – literally! Use your creativity to come up with a rover wheel design that you think would best explore Mars.

Next Moon Step Challenge

Your challenge is to create an image of your footprint (photo or artwork) and tell us what you would say, in 20 words or less, if you were the next person to step foot on the Moon.

Seeking: Materials for the Lunar Environment

NASA is seeking materials that are capable of withstanding the lunar surface environment.

NASA Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR) Bucket Drum Design Challenge

NASA is asking the public to help design a new bucket drum, the portion of the robot that captures the regolith and keeps it from falling out.

CineSpace Film Competition 2020

The CineSpace film competition offers creators around the world a chance to share their films inspired by and using NASA imagery.

Exploring Hell: Avoiding Obstacles on a Clockwork Rover

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), under a grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, is running a public challenge to develop an obstacle avoidance sensor for a possible future Venus rover.

Model Based Systems Engineering Architecture Challenge

The Model Based Systems Engineering Architecture challenge is a pilot to find creative space architecture representations and system decomposition using SysML elements for a Model Based Systems Engineering library.

CineSpace Film Competition 2019

The CineSpace film competition offers creators around the world a chance to share their films inspired by and using actual NASA imagery.

Next Generation Animal Tracking Ideation Challenge

NASA and The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) are seeking your ideas to improve the spatial and temporal coverage, spatial accuracy and/or data packet size of animal telemetry data collection and tracking.

Sample Return Regolith Sorter Design Challenge

NASA is seeking participants to design a sampling system to collect lunar surface materials for return to Earth and subsequent scientific analysis.

Human Rated Spacecraft 3D Printing Process Animation

The thermal protection and passive thermal system Technical Discipline Leads (TDL) at the Johnson Space Center are in need of a visual aide and short concept demonstration animation that shows a new automated manufacturing process.

Space Poop Challenge

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks proposed solutions for fecal, urine, and menstrual management systems to be used in the crew’s launch and entry suits over a continuous duration of up to 144 hours.

NASA Experiment Attachment System (EAS) Challenge

NASA challenges you to design an attachment system for an ISS habitation experiment. 

Sky for All: Air Mobility for 2035 and Beyond

Envision the skies of 2035 and design an airspace system that allows vehicles to safely and efficiently navigate dense and diverse airspace.

Bio-Inspired Advanced Exercise Concepts

This Challenge seeks bio-inspired approaches for compact and efficient Advanced Exercise Concepts (AECs).

In-Situ Materials Challenge

The In-Situ Materials Challenge seeks solutions to utilize surface-based materials like regolith (crushed basalt rock) for Earth and space fabrication and construction applications.

Textile Test Methods Challenge

The Textile Test Methods Challenge seeks to develop standard test methodologies for assessing the wear performance of environmental protection garment (EPG) textiles for planetary exploration.

Space Pioneering – Achieving Earth Independence

For this specific Challenge, the Solver is asked to focus on particular elements of “pioneering space,” namely those elements needed to establish a continuous human presence on Mars.

Reducing Exposure to Galactic Cosmic Rays Challenge

This challenge, launched on the NASA Innovation Pavilion, aimed to find a better way to protect humans from the effects of “Galactic Cosmic Rays” (GCR) when traveling outside the Earth’s protective Van Allen Belts.

Flexible Sealing Device Challenge

NASA is seeking a new sealing method or device to reversibly join the edges of flexible materials.

NASA Handrail Clamp Assembly Challenge

NASA is seeking to challenge the GrabCAD community by sponsoring an open competition where participants utilize the new additive manufacturing capability on the International Space Station (ISS).

Rid the Rocket Challenge

The Rid the Rocket Challenge invites individuals, teams, and organizations to submit solutions for innovative ways to build a new chemical detection method that can be used by astronauts following space flight.

Research Rovers: AI Research Assistants for NASA

Help NASA assess emerging capabilities for AI-based research assistants.

Detect, Track, and Remediate: The Challenge of Small Space Debris

This competition invites creative minds from around the world to contribute groundbreaking concepts that address the critical issue of small debris in Earth's low-earth orbit (LEO) environment.

Brilliant Minds for Pure Blue Skies

Help NASA keep skies pure blue with your brilliant idea for eliminating harmful emissions from air travel. 

Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge

Create a visualization using Earth observation data.

NASA MSI Incubator: Wildfire Climate Tech Challenge

NASA invites students and employees of MSIs to address the escalating challenges posed by wildfires and climate change.

The NASA Space Technology Art Challenge: Imagine Tomorrow

The NIAC Program wants you to show the world the future of space technology.

Who Let the Gas Out?

This Challenge is seeking solutions to propellant tank venting in micro-gravity with minimal loss of propellant.

Space Tech Catalyst Prize

The NASA Space Tech Catalyst Prize engages with and supports individuals and organizations that contribute to the growth and development of underrepresented and diverse innovators.

Pose Bowl: Spacecraft Detection and Pose Estimation Challenge

Help NASA develop algorithms that could be run on inspector (chaser) spacecraft.

The NASA Space Technology Art Challenge: Imagine Tomorrow

The NIAC Program wants you to show the world the future of space technology.

The NASA Breath Diagnostics Challenge

Enhance NASA's E-Nose for accurate medical diagnostics.

NASA Space ROS Sim Summer Sprint Challenge

Help make the Space Robot Operating System more robust and assist NASA’s plan for future missions by adding to the repository.

Low Leakage Cryogenic Disconnects for Fuel Transfer and Long-Term Storage

NASA is seeking potential low or zero leakage cryogenic disconnect seal designs that could be fabricated and tested.

Robotic Assembly and Outfitting for NASA Space Missions

Share your ideas and designs to use or enhance the current state of modular robotic construction techniques.