NASA and the Challenger Center for Space Education are co-sponsoring a contest to name NASA’s newest concept for lunar housing: an inflatable habitat currently being tested in Antarctica. The lightweight, durable, inflatable habitat is in the elements at McMurdo Station, and provides 384 square feet of living space that is insulated, heated, pressurized, and powered.
The contest, open to students from kindergarten through twelfth grade, runs until 20 November 2008. Entries (essays of no more than 500 words), will be judged, and the winner announced from Antarctica in January 2009. Prizes will also be announced.
For more details on the innovative, unnamed housing structure for the next generation of lunar exploration, and for details on the contest, see this page.