SPHERICAL Mars robots, space buildings made using radio waves and motion-powered space suits. These far-out ideas and others should once again be studied by NASA, a panel has recommended.
“Far-out ideas such as motion-powered space suits should once again be studied by NASA”
NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was founded in 1998 to harvest futuristic ideas for space flight and aeronautics. It received $4 million a year, about 0.02 per cent of NASA’s annual budget, and funded more than 100 projects that no one else would touch because of their sci-fi overtones. A combination of budget constraints and…
