5 teams win latest stage of NASA's 3D-printed habitat contest

NASA and partner Bradley University of Peoria, Illinois, selected the top five teams to share a $100,000 (about 687,300 yuan) prize in the latest stage of the agency's 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge competition, said the official website of NASA.

Winning teams successfully created digital representations of the physical and functional characteristics of a house on Mars using specialized software tools.

The teams earned prize money based on scores assigned by a panel of subject matter experts from NASA, academia and industry.

The judges interviewed and evaluated submissions from 18 teams from all over the world and selected these five:

Team Zopherus of Rogers, Arkansas - $20,957.95
AI. SpaceFactory of New York - $20,957.24
Kahn-Yates of Jackson, Mississippi - $20,622.74
SEArch+/Apis Cor of New York - $19,580.97
Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois - $17,881.10