News

Thu, 02/24/2022

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.

Mon, 09/27/2021

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....

Mon, 01/11/2021

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. 

Mon, 11/25/2019

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.

Wed, 06/28/2017

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...