NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge has awarded $175K to our newest Space Resources Workshop team to demonstrate our Walking, Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System (WORMS) for extreme terrain access on the Moon.

Our MIT Space Resources Workshop’s HYDRATION III team earned the First Place, Most Water Collected and Best Technical Poster awards, as well as the top prize of $6,000 at NASA’s Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge.

The MIT Space Resources Workshop’s MELLTT deployable lunar tower team won the Path to Flight Award at NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge Forum, held virtually Jan 6-8, 2021. 

Star City is a concept for a human city on Mars. This design won first place out of >100 entries at the Mars Colony Design contest, hosted by the Mars Society and judged by a panel that included experts from NASA and SpaceX.

The Managed, Reconfigurable, In-space Nodal Assembly (MARINA) was designed as a commercially owned and operated space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant for 10 years. It received the First Place award in the graduate division of the competition.