Southwest Harbor, Maine’s Peter Homer won $450,000 in NASA’s Astronaut Glove Challenge yesterday.
This is Homer’s second time winning the contest. Homer’s first win in 2007 launched his startup, Flagsuit. Flagsuit is developing pressure suits using the same technology as Homer’s prizewinning gloves — for use as a wearable substitute for hyperbaric chambers used to treat conditions such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, stroke and autism. Down the line, Homer plans to target the the space tourism industry, which Homer sees growing in the next two years.
Last summer, Flagsuit also won the Heinlein Business Plan Competition.
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