NASA Is Funding , the Projects of the Future.
Last week, NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts(NIAC) program announced grants for 14 teamsexploring high-risk, high-reward projects.
‘Wired’ reports that some of the projects, like a lunar oxygen pipeline or new building material foruse on Mars, could be technological game changers.
These are things looking 20 to 30 yearsdown the road to see how we coulddrastically improve or enablenew types of NASA missions, Mike LaPoint, NASA’s InnovativeAdvanced Concepts (NIAC), via ‘Wired’.
The $175,000 grants will be used tolay out detailed plans, run tests and designnew prototypes based off of Phase 1 projects.
The select few chosen to go onto Phase 2 will receive $600,000for an additional two-year study.
A single exceptional project will thenreceive an award of $2 million to enter intoanother two-year long Phase 3 study.
According to ‘Wired,’ one of the most interesting projects is a proposal …