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NASA Invests in a Plan to Build Landing Pads and Other Structures on the Moon out of Regolith
Materials are a crucial yet underappreciated component of any space exploration program. Without novel materials and ways to make them,…
Robotic asteroid mining spacecraft wins a grant from NASA
This year, the NASA's NIAC Program is looking at some really interesting ideas - such as a water-powered, laser-shooting, asteroid-mining…
NASA Invests In Radical Game-Changing Concepts For Exploration
As part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, NASA recently announced 13 radical proposals for funding and development
Robot Spacecraft Swarm Among Group Tapped For More NASA Funding
How do crazy but neat ideas such as the Mars crane make it to space? It's through years, sometimes decades,…
Study Looks at Making Asteroid Mining Viable
Artist concept of the Robotic Asteroid Prospector. Credit: Marc Cohen et al. There’s been a lot of buzz in the…
NASA Looking at Dozens of Advanced Technology Concepts
The Contour Crafting Simulation Plan for Lunar Settlement Infrastructure Build-Up, a NIAC-supported concept. Rendering courtesy of Behnaz Farahi and Connor…
Space Exploration By Robot Swarm
[/caption] With all there's yet to learn about our solar system from the many smaller worlds that reside within it…
NIAC is Back: NASA Funds 30 Innovative Ideas that Just Might Work
[/caption] What do these three things have in common: space debris elimination using an air gun, a heat shield made…