If you’re looking forward to the time when humans can decamp to the Red Planet, you’ll be happy to know that NASA is envisioning what those Martian habitats might look like—and the results are incredible. The space agency partnered with Bradley University for its Centennial Challenges competition and set a task of designing structures that could house astronauts and can actually survive the Martian terrain, weather and atmosphere. “They are not just designing structures, they are designing habitats that will allow our space explorers to live and work on other planets,” Centennial Challenges program director Monsi Roman said in a statement. You can watch virtual model videos for each entry here and learn more about the rules of the multi-year challenge here. SpaceFactory of New York3rd Place: Kahn-Yates of Jackson, Mississippi4th Place: SEArch+/Apis Cor of New York5th Place: Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois

Source: Fox News July 31, 2018 15:00 UTC