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Achieve Living Spacecraft Systems

Develop spacecraft that exhibit properties of living organisms including growth, reproduction, self-repair, and evolution for truly sustainable space exploration. Living spacecraft would grow additional modules as needed, reproduce themselves for fleet expansion, repair damage using biological processes, and evolve to optimize performance for specific missions. The challenge involves creating spacecraft systems that function as living organisms, developing space-capable biological systems, and ensuring stable operation of living technological systems. Applications include self-replicating spacecraft for automated space exploration, growing space habitats that expand with population needs, and spacecraft that evolve optimal designs for specific environments. Success would create sustainable space exploration capabilities, enable automated expansion of human presence in space, and provide models for other living technological systems.

Engineering, Core Engineering, Aerospace Engineering