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NASA Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts for Further Study
[Via NASA Breaking News]
NASA has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction into science fact through the development of pioneering technologies.
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The NIAC program allows NASA to fund speculative projects with enough seed money to see if they can bear useful fruit.
This year’s have some really interesting titles I will have to read more about:
- Thirsty Walls – A new paradigm for air revitalization in life support
- A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By
- In-Space Manufacture of Storable Propellants
- DEEP IN Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration
- Soft-Robotic Rover with Electrodynamic Power Scavenging
- CRICKET: Cryogenic Reservoir Inventory by Cost-Effective Kinetically Enhanced Technology
- APIS (Asteroid Provided In-Situ Supplies): 100MT Of Water from a Single Falcon 9
- CubeSat with Nanostructured Sensing…
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