NASA’s 2013 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition

NASA’s 2013 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition

The 2013 design competition is looking for innovative and creative ideas from undergraduate and graduate level engineering students related to NASA’s Human Space Exploration program. We encourage you to involve your students in this competition which gives them the opportunity to: interact with NASA and industry experts; infuse concepts and data from RASC-AL into NASA program planning; develop relationships that could lead to participation in other NASA programs; and demonstrate and leverage potential university-NASA-industry cooperation.

Student teams and their faculty advisors are invited to submit abstracts by January 19, 2013, responding to the one of the following themes:

• Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) Flexible Mission Architecture Designs

• Human-Focused Mars Mission Systems and Technologies

• Human Lunar Access and Initial Exploration

For complete information on the 2013 RASC-AL Design Competition, visit www.NIAnet.org/rascal

For your convenience, here is a list of important dates:

November 9, 2012      Deadline for Notices of Intent (NOI) online submission

January 19, 2013        Deadline for abstract submission

February 8, 2013        Teams are notified of their selection status

May 10, 2013              Deadline for online registration and payment for the 2013 RASC-AL Forum

May 31, 2013              Deadline for written and oral reports online submission

June 18-20, 2013        2013 RASC-AL Forum in Cocoa Beach, FL

To ensure we have the appropriate number of reviewers, teams are requested to submit an online Notice of Intent to compete form which can found on the RASC-AL website.