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	Centennial Challenges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Centennial Challenges are NASA inducement prize contests for non-government-funded technological achievements by American teams.
		The Centennial Challenges are based on a long history of technology prize contests, including the Longitude prize (won by John Harrison), the Orteig Prize (won by Charles Lindbergh), the Ansari X Prize (won by Scaled Composites), and the DARPA Grand Challenge (won by Stanford University).
		The prize contests were named "Centennial" in honor of the 100 years since the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centennial_Challenges (878 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Centennial Challenges
		Challenges will be organized into one of four categories: [7] A spacecraft is designed to leave Earths atmosphere and operate beyond the surface of the Earth in outer space.
		The DARPA Grand Challenge is a United States government-sponsored competition that aims to create the first fully autonomous vehicles capable of competing on an under-300 mile, off-road course in the Mojave Desert in the Southwest United States.
		The Centennial Challenges are based on a long history of technology prize contests, including the Longitude prize (won by John Harrison), the Orteig Prize (won by Charles Lindbergh), the Ansari X Prize (won by Scaled Composites), and the DARPA Grand Challenge.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Centennial-Challenges (1890 words)

	Centennial Challenges
		The Centennial Challenges are NASA inducement prize contest s for non-government-funded technological achievements by American teams.
		The Centennial Challenges are based on a long history of technology prize contests, including the Longitude prize (won by John Harrison), the Orteig Prize (won by Charles Lindbergh), the ANSARI X PRIZE and the DARPA Grand Challenge.
		The prize contests were named "Centennial" in honor of the 100 years since the Wright brothers ' first flight in 1903.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Centennial_Challenges.html (298 words)

	Centennial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A centennial or a centenary is a 100-year anniversary.
		Some monarchies, including the Low Countries, allow organisations that have celebrated their centennial anniversary to adopt (or petition for) the entirely honorary predicate 'Royal' (or its equivalent, e.g.
		Centennial is a 1974 novel by James Michener named after a fictional town whose name commemorated the United States Centennial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centennial (121 words)

	NASA Schedules Centennial Challenges Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Centennial Challenges is a novel program of challenges, competitions, and prizes.
		"Centennial Challenges is a small but potentially high-leverage investment by NASA to help address some of our most difficult hurdles in research and exploration," said NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe.
		The goal of Centennial Challenges is to stimulate innovation in fundamental technologies, robotic capabilities, and very low-cost space missions by establishing prize purses for specific achievements in technical areas of interest to NASA.
	www.californiaspaceauthority.org /html/press-releasesandletters/pr040511.html (379 words)

	NASA Announces First Centennial Challenges' Prizes
		Under this challenge, teams will develop high strength materials that will be stretched in a head-to-head competition to see which tether is strongest.
		The Beam Power challenge focuses on the development of wireless power technologies for a wide range of exploration purposes, such as human lunar exploration and long-duration Mars reconnaissance.
		In this challenge, teams will develop wireless power transmission systems, including transmitters and receivers, to power robotic climbers to lift the greatest weight possible to the top of a 50-meter cable in under three minutes.
	www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk /2005/27March2005_27.html (404 words)

	Centennial Challenges at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Centennial Challenges are NASA prize contests for technological achievements by US citizens except federal employees.
		The Centennial Challenges are based on a long history of technological prizes, including the Longitude prize, the Orteig Prize (won by Charles Lindbergh), the X-Prize and the DARPA Grand Challenge.
		A 2003 NASA Space Architect study, assisted by the X-Prize Foundation, led to the establishment of the Centennial Challenges.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Centennial_Challenges.html (215 words)

	Centennial Challenges: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Flagship Challenges: "To encourage major private space missions," these are expected to be multi-million dollar prizes for more major goals, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The Centennial Challenges are based on a long history of technology prize contests, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The darpa grand challenge is a united states government-sponsored competition that aims to create the first fully autonomous vehicles capable of competing on an...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ce/centennial_challenges.htm (1882 words)

	Centennial Challenges - The Jiggies Reference Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Centennial Challenges are NASA prize contests for non-government funded technological achievements by American teams.
		The Centennial Challenges are based on a long history of technological prizes, including the Longitude prize, the Orteig Prize (won by Charles Lindbergh), the ANSARI X PRIZE and the DARPA Grand Challenge.
		The prizes were named "Centennial" in honor of the 100 years since the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903.
	www.jiggies.com /reference/Centennial_Challenges (367 words)

	Space Future Journal - New NASA Program: The Centennial Challenge
		announced that it had created a Centennial Challenges office to manage the prizes, which could be up to $250,000 without additional approval from the US Congress.
		Centennial Challenges program manager Brant Sponberg said, "Prizes might range up to $30 million for the attainment of goals such as a soft lunar landing or bringing back a piece of an asteroid."
		In addition to the "hard" Challenges, i.e., those with a tangible result, the Centennial Challenges program will be interested in educational partnerships with colleges, universities, and high schools to increase interest in space programs, develop new ideas for Challenges, and suggest program improvements.
	www.spacefuture.com /journal/journal.cgi?art=2004.07.14.centennial_challenge (967 words)

	Centennial Challenges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On March 23, 2005, NASA announced its first challenges, which are Alliance Challenges in collaboration with the Spaceward Foundation.
		One contest is the Tether Challenge, for building the sort of super-strong tether needed to make a space elevator feasible.
		The other is the Beam Power Challenge, for creating a wirelessly-powered ribbon-climbing robot capable of lifting as large a payload as possible within a limited timeframe.
	centennial-challenges.area51.ipupdater.com (582 words)

	Wired News: NASA Follows X Prize Footsteps
		The Beam Power Challenge, as the wireless power competition is being called, encourages inventors to find a way to supply a robot with enough power to climb to the top of a 50-meter cable in less than three minutes.
		The Centennial Challenges are being managed with the help of the nonprofit Spaceward Foundation, a Mountain View, California, space advocacy group.
		NASA and the Spaceward Foundation were to announce the challenges formally late Wednesday afternoon at the Flight School aerospace conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.
	www.wired.com /news/space/0,2697,67000,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5 (657 words)

	Technology News: NASA's Prize Competition Solicits Ideas and Partners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Centennial Challenges seeks novel solutions to NASA's mission challenges from non-traditional sources of innovation in academia, industry and the public.
		The APO document is looking for organizations wishing to contribute to Centennial Challenges activities.
		All presentations will be open to the public, unclassified and restricted to the Centennial Challenges program, and the released RFIs and APO.
	www.axcessnews.com /technology_110604.shtml (498 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Draw oxygen from moon dirt, challenges NASA
		NASA launched the Centennial Challenges as an answer to the Ansari X-Prize, the $10 million space prize for the first private reusable vehicle to fly into space twice, which was won in October 2004.
		NASA’s first challenges were issued in March 2005 to build strong space tethers for future space elevators, and a payload-carrying wirelessly-powered robot that could climb a space cable.
		The Centennial Challenges are designed to spur technological innovation to return to the Moon and continue onward.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7403 (494 words)

	Space News March 8, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		NASA has yet to announce the first of its so-called Centennial Challenges, but agency officials have said the contests will be designed to encourage advances in fundamental space technologies like propulsion, power, communications, robotics and very low cost space missions.
		Brant Sponberg, NASA’s Centennial Challenges program manager, said the agency established the program with the help of the X-Prize Foundation and has worked with NASA field centers and headquarters to come up with an initial list of 129 candidate challenges.
		Sponberg said Centennial Challenges competitions will be open to U.S. citizens but not federal employees.
	www.space.com /spacenews/businessmonday_040308.html (599 words)

	Search: challenges
		RSA is currently holding three cryptographic challenges: RSA Factoring Challenge; Secret-Key Challenge; DES Challenge III (Solved!) RSA Security launches and maintains the cryptographic cha...
		Challenge Clubs for girls is a Catholic organization building faith, virtues and leadership skills among the women of tomorrow.
		The term 'challenging behavior' is a catch-all term for a series of frustrating or hair-tearing behaviors that we see in others.
	www.dogpile.com /info.dogpl/search/web/challenges (341 words)

	Centennial Challenges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		is undertaking a challenge to its 2005 county property taxes even as the company still contemplates appealing its 2004 tax case to the state Supreme Court.
		A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly leading law enforcement agencies on a chase through the east side of the city and onto the interstates.
		An occasional series of personal commentaries, on the thought-provoking challenges of daily life.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Centennial_Challenges.html (827 words)

	Calendar of Events: Centennial Challenges Day \| Moon Today
		The objective of this event is to familiarize participants with the Centennial Challenges program, to describe the Request For Information (RFI) and Announcement of Partnership Opportunity (APO) documents that were released on November 5, 2004, and to respond to questions about these topics.
		Because it was felt that the challenges that focus on technology development (the "Flagship" and "Keystone" categories) would require sufficiently different support contracts than the challenges that focus on outreach (the "Quest" category), it was decided to release two separate RFIs instead of a single RFI for all challenges.
		NOTICE All Challenges are still in the formulation stage, and no final decision has been made on whether or not to initiate the Challenges described in the RFIs and APO.
	www.moontoday.net /calendar/calendar.html?pid=3165 (959 words)

	NASA - NASA Announces Centennial Challenges Workshop Agenda
		NASA's Centennial Challenges program will feature prominent speakers and panelists during its inaugural workshop, June 15 and 16, at the Hilton Hotel, Washington.
		Centennial Challenges is a new NASA prize competition program designed to tap the nation's ingenuity to make revolutionary advances to support the Vision for Space Exploration and NASA goals.
		The 2004 Centennial Challenges Workshop is also an opportunity for potential participants to provide input to NASA about future competitions.
	www1.nasa.gov /home/hqnews/2004/jun/HQ_04179_centennial_workshop.html (388 words)

	Centennial Challenges
		The ETO Engineering Design Challenges Program connects students in their classrooms with the challenges faced by NASA engineers as they design the next generation of aerospace vehicles.
		Centennial history (1832-1932) of Parsonsfield Seminary, one of the pioneering institutions of secondary education in New England.
		Langley Centennial Museum, located in Fort Langley, BC, is a vibrant community resource that connects and involves people with their cultural heritage.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Centennial_challenge (2277 words)

	Cached: http://centennialchallenges.nasa.gov/
		Welcome to Centennial Challenges, NASA's program of prize contests to stimulate innovation and competition in solar system exploration and ongoing NASA mission areas.
		The Centennial Challenges Program is planning a workshop in the spring of 2004 to generate ideas for future challenges and to refine the best challenge ideas.
		The Centennial Challenges Program is interested in your ideas for future challenges and invites you to submit your ideas using the forms at this link.
	www.liftwatch.org /tiki-view_cache.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcentennialchallenges.nasa.gov%2F (239 words)

	NASA And Industry Brainstorm Aerospace Prize Ideas
		NASA began brainstorming ideas for its upcoming Centennial Challenges aerospace prizes with industry representatives during a meeting in Washington June 15, in anticipation of announcing the first prizes later this year.
		Modeled on successful 19th century navigation prizes and early 20th century aviation prizes, the Centennial Challenges program is aimed at stimulating industry to produce breakthroughs in technologies that would support NASA's new vision for space exploration.
		Legislative language formally establishing the Centennial Challenges program will be included in the NASA reauthorization bill to be introduced in the Senate later this week by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.).
	www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?id=news/pri06164.xml (701 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - New space prizes target space elevators
		The prizes, announced on Wednesday evening, are the first in a series called "Centennial Challenges", modelled on the $10 million X Prize recently awarded to the first privately developed spacecraft.
		The $50,000 "Tether Challenge" will be awarded to a privately funded team that has the strongest tether of a particular diameter.
		In 2006, the challenge will include building the source of power, as well, and the top three teams will again receive $100,000, $40,000 and $10,000, respectively.
	www.spacetoday.net /getarticle.php3?id=59641 (463 words)

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