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NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) has selected six visionary concept studies for additional funding and development. Each study has…
NASA selected the 2024 Phase I awardees for its program to fund ideas that could innovate for the benefit of…
Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he…
FLUTE aims to find out if giant lenses and mirrors – the high-quality optical components needed for future large-aperture space…
Technology in development today could radically change the future of air and space exploration. Nearly silent electric aircraft could ferry…
Imagine a future in space where pellet-beam propulsion systems speed up travel to other worlds, pipelines on the Moon transport…
An astronaut steps into a body scanner and, hours later, walks on Mars in a custom-made spacesuit, breathing oxygen that…
A concept in development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory would allow potential planetary missions to chase interesting clues in subsurface…
Editor’s Note: This release was updated on May 24 to include information about the project’s co-investigator. As NASA’s exploration continues…