NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
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NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) seeks proposals for revolutionary aeronautics and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and conducts its missions. It provides a highly visible, recognizable, and high-level entry point for outside thinkers and researchers. NIAC encourages proposers to think decades into the future in pursuit of concepts that will "leapfrog" the evolution of current aerospace systems. While NIAC seeks advance concept proposals that stretch the imagination, these concepts should be based on sound scientific principles and attainable within a 10 to 40-year time frame.
[edit] Studies Funded by NIAC include
- Bio-Nano-Machines for Space Applications - Constantinos Mavroidis
- System Feasibility Demonstrations of Caves and Subsurface Constructs for Mars Habitation and Scientific Exploration (Caves of Mars Project) - Penelope J. Boston
- Lunar space elevator - Jerome Pearson final report.pdf
- Magnetic sail- Robert Zubrin
- Mini-magnetospheric plasma propulsion - Robert M Winglee
- New Worlds Imager - Dr. Webster Cash
- The Space Elevator - By Dr. Bradley C. Edwards
- Mars Entomopter - Anthony Colozza
[edit] External links
- http://www.niac.usra.edu/ - The official NIAC site
- http://www.niac.usra.edu/studies/studies.jsp - List of studies that have been funded
