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Six Innovative Tech Concepts to New Phase by NASA

Futuristic Ideas Championed by NIAC Program

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Tom Patton
May 06, 2024
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The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) has selected six visionary concept studies for additional funding and development. Each study has already completed the initial NIAC phase, showing their futuristic ideas – like a lunar railway system and fluid-based telescopes – may provide fresh perspectives and approaches as NASA explores the unkno…

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