The government wants your help solving today’s biggest challenges

The government wants your help solving today’s biggest challenges

A few years ago, I tried to help a team of astronauts survive a Martian dust storm. Fortunately, nobody was actually in danger. I was participating in the second NASA MarsXR Challenge, a government-sponsored competition hosted on the HeroX open-innovation platform. NASA wanted members of the public to design virtual reality scenarios that could someday help train astronauts for missions on Mars. The first phase focused on storyboarding, so parti…