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NASA Centennial Challenges

Offers broad challenges for innovators, students, and small teams solving hard engineering problems.

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NASA Centennial Challenges sits under NASA, the US federal civil space agency, and is administered through the Space Technology Mission Directorate's prizes and crowdsourcing work. It exists to put prize money behind hard engineering problems that NASA wants solved.

The program is open to US citizens, permanent residents, and US-incorporated entities, including universities, nonprofits, companies…

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Last verified: 29 May 2026Source: www.nasa.gov