Defense Tech darlings NIAC (that’s the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts) have handed out their research grants for 2005. And all of ‘em are pretty geekalicious. Behold:
* Antimatter Harvesting in Space (Principle Investigator: Dr. Gerald P. Jackson, Hbar Technologies, LLC, Chicago)
* Multi-MICE: A Network of Interactive Nuclear Cryoprobes to Explore Ice Sheets on Mars and Europa (PI: Dr. George Maise, Plus Ultra Technologies, Inc., Stony Brook, N.Y.)
* A Contamination-Free Ultrahigh-Precision Formation Flight Method Based on Intracavity Photon Thrusters and Tethers (PI: Dr. Young K. Bae, Bae Institute, Tustin, Calif.)
* Modular Spacecraft with Integrated Structural Electrodynamic Propulsion (PI: Mr. Nestor Voronka, Tethers Unlimited, Bothell, Wash.)
…And a bunch more. We’ve covered NIAC before, here, here, here, here, and probably a bunch of other places, too.
(Via /.)
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exploration. We need to come up with something
totally unique that can save mankind.
Here is my idea.
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