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The National Space Society is teaming up with Virgin Galactic to identify Space Ambassadors around the world. As part of their duties, Space Ambassadors will communicate the value of space research and exploration to their local communities, and one special Space Ambassador will be selected to fly on a Virgin Galactic space flight!

NSS Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest

NASA/NSS Space Settlement Student Design Contest

NASA Ames Research Center in conjunction with the National Space Society sponsors an annual space settlement design contest for 6-12th grade students.

International Space Settlement Design Competition

This annual contest puts high school students in the shoes of aerospace industry engineers designing a city in space that will house over 10,000 people. Student engineers demonstrate creativity, technical competence, management skills, environmental knowledge, space, teamwork, and presentation techniques to conquer the problems inherent in siting and designing a Space Settlement (Space Colony).

NSS Scholarship to the International Space University

A scholarship to the International Space University, offered by the National Space Society, SEDS, and the Space Generation Foundation, worth $10,000. Application deadline is December 31 of each year, for study in the following year.

NSS Banner Design Contest Gallery

This contest is over but you can see the gallery of submitted designs.

Google Lunar X Prize

To a team who successfully lands a privately funded craft on the lunar surface which survives long enough to roam the lunar surface for 500 meters and send a defined data package (“Mooncast”) back to Earth. The total purse of the Google Lunar X PRIZE is $30 million (USD). See 8-minute video — It's cool!

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