Tuesday, May 11, 2010

MoonBots, TARC, Power Beaming, NASAMICI Kickoff, Rover Challenge, More

Calling all moonbots! - COSMIC LOG

Space elevator challenges probably in autumn - RLV News

‘Garage Inventors’ - The Space Elevator Blog

Team Westlawn rocket team honors late mentor, Mike Murphy - al.com

O'Gorman Rocket Team To Compete In Nationals - Keloland.com

PhD thesis to help Armadillo? - Space Fellowship

Centennial Challenges: NASA’s Prize Program for the “Citizen Inventor” - NASA Tech Briefs - Andrew Petro

Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #18 - Luna C/I: Moon Colonization and Integration

@NASAMICI: Confirmed - Andy Petro NASA Centennial Challenges PM will participate in welcome message during http://NASAMICI.com kickoff

Confirmed - NASA Astronaut Winston Scott will participate in welcome message during http://NASAMICI.com kickoff

Peter Homer @pkhomer , winner of $450,000 in Astronaut Glove Challenges http://tinyurl.com/yfuwwb5 agrees 2 speak at MICI kickoff

In addition to information about their own kickoff, the NASAMICI twitter is also pointing out numerous other prize opportunities and events. I'll point you to the link above since there's a lot of good prize information there.

@SpaceShow: Kevin Sloan re the Mars Society University Rover Challenge is on tonight 7-8:30 PM PDT.Listen @ http://www.thespaceshow.com/. Call 1-866-687-7223.

@alias_amanda: Nice. @TechCrunch helped find 3 of the Red Darpa Balloons, donating the prize money they earned to charity: http://tcrn.ch/9zdVSJ

@PTScientists: It's official! we are presenting the GoogleLunarX-Prize and our Team on Europe biggest Airshow, meet us @ILA2010 http://bit.ly/blpHPN #glxp

@Spacevidcast: New Jersey Students Win NASA and USA TODAY Competition: NASA and USA TODAY announced the winners of the 2010 ... http://bit.ly/dyzPPb #nasa

@fineri: My test site with verticle test pole in place, looking down the would be flame trench path. http://twitpic.com/1muygx

Another view with removable tank/engine module in place. http://twitpic.com/1muzpz