Posted on 10/15/2006 3:33:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate has announced a new aeronautics competition for high school and college students. The directorate's Fundamental Aeronautics Program sponsors the competition, part of NASA's mission to inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists and explorers.
High school students are challenged to put themselves 50 years into the future to describe how air transportation systems have evolved with vehicles flying at various speeds.
Entries are due by Thursday, March 15.
College students are invited to propose solutions for complex technical problems in hypersonic and supersonic flight; subsonic fixed and rotary wing transports; or Mars atmosphere entry, descent and landing.
College entries are due by Friday, April 27.
Monetary awards ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 may be available for winners in each category. There will be awards for second and third places and honorable mention recognition. Winning university students may be offered a 10-week summer internship at a NASA field center.
For details, visit aero.larc.
nasa.gov/com petitions.htm.
For details about other aeronautics competions, visit www.aero
space.nasa.gov/design comp.htm.
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$5,000 for an essay contest? Kind of missing the whole invent the future thingie doesn't it?
Now we have "whole science." Forget about how to make dreams come true, just smoke some weed and imagine how cool the future will be. /sarc
Speculative Fiction (the real SciFi) was about showing plausible advances in technology based on real scientif principals.
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