Turning Science Fiction into Science Fact: NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Program

Turn­ing Sci­ence Fic­tion into Sci­ence Fact: NASA’s Inno­v­a­tive Advanced Con­cepts Program



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NASA’s Inno­v­a­tive Advanced Con­cepts (NIAC) Pro­gram nur­tures vision­ary ideas from Amer­i­ca’s inno­va­tors and entre­pre­neurs that could trans­form future NASA mis­sions with the cre­ation of rad­i­cal­ly bet­ter or entire­ly new aero­space con­cepts. NIAC projects study inno­v­a­tive, tech­ni­cal­ly cred­i­ble, advanced con­cepts to turn sci­ence fic­tion to sci­ence fact.

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More infor­ma­tion about con­cepts includ­ed in this video:
· 0:34 Lunar Crater Radio Tele­scope (LCRT):
· 0:58 Super Ball Bot:
· 1:00 Tri­ton Hopper:
· 1:04 Con­tour Crafting:
· 1:08 Marsbee:
· 1:10 Dif­frac­tive Solar Sailing:
· 1:13 Solar Grav­i­ta­tion­al Lensing:
· 1:17 Flu­idic Tele­scope (FLUTE):
· 1:30 On-demand Cus­tom Spacesuits:
· 1:35 Cube­Sat Neu­tri­no Detector:
· 1:38 Loft­ed Envi­ron­men­tal Venus Sen­sors (LEAVES):
· 1:41 Myco-Architecture:
· 1:44 Lunar Pit explor­ing Robots:
· 1:56 Bioin­spired Ray (BREEZE):
· 1:58 Inde­pen­dent Micro-swim­mers (SWIM):
· 1:59 Light Bender:
· 2:01 Atmos­phere and Cloud Sam­ple Return:
· 2:03 Opti­cal Mining:
· 2:06 Nuclear Ther­mal Propulsion: 

Pro­duc­er, Writer, Edi­tor: Shane Apple
Nar­ra­tor: Emanuel Cooper
Music: Uni­ver­sal Pro­duc­tion Music

Cred­it: NASA



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