What Happened During NASA Means Business '99?

The six selected university teams of the inaugural 1999 NASA Means Business Student Competition identified major issues and framed the fundamental elements of the initial Mars Exploration Business Plan. They presented their work at the 1999 NASA Customer Engagement Conference, which was held in Houston on May 24-26, 1999. Those presentations may be accessed at the following web sites:

• Georgia Institute of Technology
  
  
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  
• Texas A&M University
  
  
• University of Colorado
  
  
• University of Illinois
  
  
• University of Maryland
  
  

The team web sites should serve as a resource and point of departure for your proposal. Although we feel that this work provides the solid, creative thinking NASA is looking for, please feel free to propose (and substantiate) approaches that reflect different perspectives.

2000 NASA Means Business Student Competition is sponsored by NASA and is administered by Texas Space Grant Consortium.