NASA Invites Students to Submit Proposals to Fix Aviation Maintenance Written 22 September 2025
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Autonomous UAV performs an aircraft inspection. | Credit: Josselin Bequet; Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 4.0
Flying Magazine reports, “U.S. college students have the opportunity to score NASA internships by sharing ideas for aviation maintenance technologies. The space agency on Friday announced the theme for its 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies competition—“RepAir: Advancing Aviation Maintenance” for commercial passenger and cargo operations. Teams of collegiate students are invited to submit proposals that incorporate automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technologies. Their objective is to devise a solution that could improve maintenance efficiency, safety, or costs and be implemented within the next decade.”
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