NASA Power to Explore Student Essay Contest

The competition asks students to learn about NASA’s Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS), “nuclear batteries” the agency uses to explore some of the most extreme destinations in the solar system and beyond. Students wrote about a mission of their own enabled by these space power systems.

The challenge is funded by the Radioisotope Power Systems Program Office in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and administered by Future Engineers under the NASA Open Innovation Services 2 contract. This contract is managed by the NASA Tournament Lab, a part of the Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program in NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.

Aadya Karthik, Rainie Lin, and Thomas Liu's essays won them a trip to NASA's Glenn Research Center.