TrepHub exploring how to grow food on Mars, other NASA challanges

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MELBOURNE — NASA is relying on people around the world this weekend to help them solve some of the agency’s biggest challenges.

It’s called the International Space Apps Challenge 2014.

NASA has come up with 45 challenges for people to tackle.

TrepHub, a nonprofit technology startup incubator in Melbourne, is looking at issues from how to grow food on Mars to how to mine asteroids for valuable minerals.

“Who knows? Maybe out of one of these ideas you will have a company that is going to prospecting some asteroids, or figuring out a food solution for Mars,” said Ahmed Reza, co-founder of TrepHub.

While the goal is to help NASA think outside and find solutions to issues, the goal is also to get people interested in the future of space exploration.