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Turning Science Fiction into Science Fact: NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Program
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.
For more information about NIAC: https://www.nasa.gov/NIAC
Apply to NIAC link: https://www.nasa.gov/content/apply-to-niac
More NIAC videos: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/videos
Link to download this video:
https://images.nasa.gov/details/NASA%20NIAC%20Turning%20Science%20Fiction%20into%20Science%20Fact
More information about concepts included in this video:
· 0:34 Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT): https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/lunar_crater_radio_telescope/
· 0:58 Super Ball Bot: https://www.nasa.gov/content/super-ball-bot
· 1:00 Triton Hopper: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Triton_Hopper/
· 1:04 Contour Crafting: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/home/niac_countour_crafting.html
· 1:08 Marsbee: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Marsbee_Swarm_of_Flapping_Wing_Flyers_for_Enhanced_Mars_Exploration/
· 1:10 Diffractive Solar Sailing: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2022/diffractive_solar_sailing/
· 1:13 Solar Gravitational Lensing: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Direct_Multipixel_Imaging_and_Spectroscopy_of_an_Exoplanet/
· 1:17 Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE): https://www.nasa.gov/ames/flute
· 1:30 On-demand Custom Spacesuits: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2022/Spacesuit_Digital_Thread/
· 1:35 CubeSat Neutrino Detector: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021_Phase_I/Cube_Sat_Space_Flight_Test_of_a_Neutrino_Detector/
· 1:38 Lofted Environmental Venus Sensors (LEAVES): https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Lofted_Environmental_and_Atmospheric_Venus_Sensors/#:~:text=The%20LEAVES%20(Lofted%20Environmental%20and,planetary%20body%20with%20a%20prominent
· 1:41 Myco-Architecture: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021_Phase_I/Mycotecture_Off_Planet/
· 1:44 Lunar Pit exploring Robots: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/robotic_technologies-enabling-the-exploration-of-lunar-pits/
· 1:56 Bioinspired Ray (BREEZE): https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/breeze/
· 1:58 Independent Micro-swimmers (SWIM): https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2022/SWIM/
· 1:59 Light Bender: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021_Phase_I/Light_Bender/
· 2:01 Atmosphere and Cloud Sample Return: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2022/Venus_Atmosphere_and_Cloud_Particle_Sample_Return_for_Astrobiology/
· 2:03 Optical Mining: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Mini_Bee_Prototype/
· 2:06 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/New_Class_of_Bimodal/
Producer, Writer, Editor: Shane Apple
Narrator: Emanuel Cooper
Music: Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA
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