NASA MARS MAKERS

NASA's Mars Makers

Welcome to a place for invention to be celebrated.

Mars Makers is connected to the movement to encourage creativity and innovation from people around the world who turn ideas into inventions that will improve our lives on Earth and wherever our exploration takes us - to Mars and beyond!

"To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe."

- Carl Sagan

Be a Mars Maker!

In cooperation with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

3D Printing Challenge

Could you live on Mars?

Certainly not without great design and engineering. Taking Mars' extreme cold, high radiation levels, lack of oxygen, and frequent dust storms into consideration, design a utilitarian Mars base that can withstand the elements and maybe even make you feel at home, despite being 140 million miles away from Earth, on average.

MakerBot Mars Challenge ››

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An example project made for the Imagine Mars Project

Student teams think about a human future on the Red Planet and what it will take to survive and thrive in its extreme environment... and in the process, imagine ideal communities here on Earth where their creativity can make a difference.

Imagine Mars Projects ››

Co-sponsored by NASA & the National Endowment for the Arts

Inspiration can be
found in a pile of junk.

Sometimes, you can put it together
with a good imagination and
invent something.

- Thomas Edison

Engineering for Mars Makers at Home

Print your own 3D model!

Make your own paper spacecraft model!

NEWS MAKERS

Low Density Supersonic Decelerator
Parachute Test!

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LDSD: Test Vehicle Returns - 6/3/14 NASA's saucer-shaped test vehicle, the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) was recovered from the ocean and returned to Port Allen, Kauai, on June 29, 2014.