Repeat Winner in NASA's Centennial Glove Challenge

2009, November 23 - 8:33am — Greg Kontos

Current Events

Critical Path Innovation:

Clothing and Protective Gear

People:

Peter Homer
Ted Southern

Institutions:

NASA

Projects:

Centennial Challenges

Peter Homer demonstrates his contest winning glove for the Centennial Challenge

Peter Homer won NASA's Glove design competition for the second time. The $250,000 prize was part of NASA's Centennial Challenge program which invites all sorts of people to submit prototypes for various space oriented activities. The regolith challenge also falls into this category.

Peter Homer previously won the glove challenge in 2007.

This year, artist Ted Southern took home the $100,000 second prize.