For the rocket scientist in you

NASA wants you! Time to break out the Tester model rocket kits to see if your scale model is worth NASA’s time.

NASA said Friday it is sponsoring a $2 million contest to spur aerospace designers to build and demonstrate versatile rockets that may one day support a lunar mission.

The competition is part of the space agency’s Centennial Challenges program, which aims to foster innovation by offering prizes to teams that can solve a range of problems.

NASA is working with the Santa Monica-based X Prize Foundation to conduct the Lunar Lander Analog Challenge, simulating a trip between the surface of the moon and low lunar orbit. NASA hopes the technology developed would be capable of carrying humans and cargo back and forth between the lunar surface and orbit.

If you can’t build something yourself, outsource the job to others. The American way right?