NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
The task of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC), founded in February 1998, was to identify and promote unconventional, exotic concepts for the aerospace industry. The institution awarded grants mainly to researchers and inventors who were largely independent of NASA . Selected projects were supported in developing promising concepts into prototypes.
The aim was to discover revolutionary ideas that should enable a technological leap in space travel . The program was thus geared towards projects with a realization horizon within the next ten to forty years. One of the most sensational projects in the public eye was the research into concepts for realizing a space elevator . The NIAC was closed on August 31, 2007. In 2011 the program was resumed as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts .
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (Engl.)
- Homepage of the Spaceward Foundation (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program techland.time.com
- ↑ NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) nasa.gov, accessed September 5, 2012