PENN STATE WINS MULTIPLE AWARDS IN NASA'S LUNARECYCLE CHALLENGE

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 29 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A team of students from Penn State's Student Space Programs Lab (SSPL) received the Most Innovative Prize in both the prototype and the digital twin tracks for their entry in the NASA LunaRecycle Challenge, a $3 million, two-track, two-phase competition. This NASA Centennial Challenge was established to support the design and development of recycling solutions that reduce non-metabolic waste and improve the sustainability of longer-duration lunar missions.

According to NASA, a crew of four astronauts could generate more than 4,600 pounds of single-use waste over the course of a year. The LunaRecycle Challenge aims to ...