NASA Wants Your Ideas Around Colonization on Mars (And You Can Win $5,000 For It)

NASA is commencing a new challenge for public in which you may submit ideas for items necessary to support a manned mission to Mars, including permanent human settlement.

Proposals will need to describe the technological and economical feasibility of their ideas. People proposing ideas also need to explain how they would sustain human life with little or now support from Earth.

The agency will also pay final three awards, each of $5,000 if idea is ground breaking.

The proposals may cover essentials such as shelter, water, food, air supply, communications, exercise, medicine, and interactions among the crew members. Other inventive notions are encouraged as well, noted The Space Reporter.

"By developing new technologies along the way and creating the systems necessary to maintain a permanent human presence in deep space, humanity will pioneer space, pushing out into the solar system to stay," NASA said in a statement.

Meanwhile NASA chief has said the we are going to see American boots on Martian soil by 2030s. "It's attainable," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in the opening message at the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C.. "Mars matters to humanity and the pursuit of human progress."