{"id":277362,"date":"2025-09-03T06:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=907701"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:42:22","slug":"nasa-2026-human-lander-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=277362","title":{"rendered":"NASA 2026 Human Lander Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA\u2019s Human Lander Challenge (HuLC)\u00a0is an initiative supporting its Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate\u2019s (ESDMD\u2019s) efforts to explore innovative solutions for a variety of known technology development areas for human landing systems (HLS). Landers are used to safely ferry astronauts to and from the lunar surface as part of the mission architecture for NASA\u2019s Artemis campaign. Through this challenge, college students contribute to the advancement of HLS technologies, concepts, and approaches. Improvements in these technology areas have the potential to revolutionize NASA\u2019s approach to space exploration, and contributions from the academic community are a valuable part of the journey to discovery.\u00a0HuLC is open to teams comprised of full-time or part-time undergraduate and\/or graduate students at an accredited U.S.-based community college, college, or university.\u00a0HuLC projects allow students to incorporate their coursework into real aerospace design concepts and work together in a team environment. Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged.<\/p>\n

Award: $126,000 in total prizes<\/p>\n

Open Date: August 29, 2025<\/p>\n

Close Date: March 4, 2026<\/p>\n

For more information, visit: https:\/\/hulc.nianet.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA\u2019s Human Lander Challenge (HuLC)\u00a0is an initiative supporting its Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate\u2019s (ESDMD\u2019s) efforts to explore innovative solutions for a variety of known technology development areas for human landing systems (HLS). Landers are used to safely ferry astronauts to and from the lunar surface as part of the mission architecture for NASA\u2019s Artemis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15705,15787,15988,15788],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-of-excellence-for-collaborative-innovation-coeci","category-get-involved","category-opportunities-to-contribute-to-nasa-missions-get-involved","category-prizes-challenges-and-crowdsourcing-program"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t