BRENT: The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts NIAC program has announced 15 phase I winners in its quest to make science fiction science fact. The aim of the program is to encourage the innovation of ideas with the potential to transform future aerospace and exploration operations, but more importantly, it grants us a tantalizing and often fantastical glimpse of what the future may hold.
In the past, NIAC has given rise to a fascinating blend of concepts, from the mundane to the overtly ambitious. In recent years it has filled our heads with ideas of futuristic aerospace concepts and submarines on Titan. The 15 successful 2015 phase I recipients haven’t failed to add a sense of wonder to proceedings.
Each of the newly-funded projects are intriguing in their own way, but a few in particular catch the eye thanks either to the ambitious nature of the concept, or the potential scientific leap forward that they may represent.
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