The future is now for eight technology innovators whose projects were selected for funding through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program this past week.
The NIAC funding was granted to proposals "that have the potential to transform future aerospace missions, introduce new capabilities, and significantly improve current approaches to building and operating aerospace systems," according to the agency.
During this second phase of the program the developers could each be awarded up to $500,000 to launch a two-year study, which NASA hopes could eventually lead to improvements of its own operations as well as contributing to advances in aerospace and other fields of science.
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