"The agency is once again calling on citizen innovators to help design the future, this time through a new HeroX challenge to develop better wheels and more robust tires for lunar rovers. The competition, called the Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge, offers $155,000 in prizes for top designs that can handle the punishing surface of the moon. As with previous NASA and HeroX challenges, everyone from amateur inventors working out of their garages to teams of students or professional companies are welcome to participate."
"The new Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge builds on that same idea. The agency is hoping to get some fresh thinking from outside their traditional engineering teams. But this time, the focus is on something that seems deceptively simple: tires. On Earth, tires face friction, wear and tear, heat and other hazards like moisture and temperature fluctuations. But on the moon"
NASA is calling citizen innovators through a HeroX challenge to design improved wheels and more robust tires for lunar rovers. The Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge offers $155,000 in prizes and welcomes participants ranging from amateur inventors and student teams to professional companies. The effort builds on the NASA Tournament Lab’s long-running collaboration with HeroX that has crowdsourced solutions for problems such as astronaut gloves and virtual reality training tools for spacewalks and Mars missions. NASA seeks fresh thinking outside traditional engineering teams, focusing on tires that must survive the moon’s punishing and unique surface conditions.
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