Case Study: NASA ends a 3-year Kevlar testing roadblock with Wazoku

NASA ends a 3-year roadblock with Wazoku

NASA, the US federal agency for space exploration and aeronautics, faced a significant three-year roadblock in its research. The challenge was to develop a reliable testing method for Kevlar webbing durability in space conditions, as existing methods failed at high temperatures and internal resources were stretched too thin. To solve this, NASA engaged Wazoku and its crowd innovation service, the Wazoku Crowd.

Wazoku ran a challenge with a $20,000 award, which attracted winning solutions from solvers in the US and Serbia, including one individual from a medical college without a materials science background. This provided NASA with quick, simple, and easy-to-test solutions, finally ending their long-standing problem. The Wazoku approach saved invaluable time for the NASA team and acted as a force multiplier, delivering new possibilities from unexpected sources.

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