Click the link above if you are a new school or district that would like to participate in HUNCH and fill out the form.  
**** If you are doing a virtual web conference, please have your presentation available on PowerPoint and be ready to present it.  Also, please have an electronic version of your brochure.  Please send both of these to me at [email protected] PRIOR to your meeting with me.


​Finalists 2026
(Chosen from the CDR- Critical Design Competition)
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The finalists chosen will be invited to come to Houston and show their projects to our Flight surgeons, Human Research performance group, and other ISS scientists and engineers.  This final will be held April 29th 2026 at Rocket Park, Space Center Houston


As we look to the future of colonization on Moon and Mars, we must consider the physiological changes that happen to humans in space and find ways to mitigate those changes.  

This NASA HUNCH program gives students a way to think outside of the box and create solutions to some of these problems we are facing.

Weekly Objectives

These documents below are purely to help you through the process of these projects.  It is only a resource.
weekly_objectives_-_week_1___2_-_kick_off_-_2025-26.pdf
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weekly_objectives_-_week_3___4_progress_-_2025-26.pdf
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weekly_objectives_-_week_5___6_progress_-_2025-26.pdf
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weekly_objectives_-_week_7___8_sprint_to_the_pdr_-_2025-26__1_.pdf
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