Fostering Visions for the Future A Review of the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Background and Significance
Background and Significance
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It generates ideas for how the current NASA Agenda can be done better; it expands our vision of future possibilities.1 "The NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was established in 1998 to inspire and explore innovative aerospace systems and architectures."2 This virtual institute, using a peer review process, sought out aerospace and space science concepts, specifically systems or architectures aimed 10 to 40 years in the future that could have a major impact on future missions of the NASA enterprises.
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The crewed space programs presented further challenges⎯meeting safety and reliability requirements and addressing life support issues. Grand adventures in space science, astronomy, Earth observations, and life and materials sciences followed as the United States, largely through NASA, achieved world leadership in space science and technology.
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studies, for a total of $27.3 million for a wide range of universities and businesses. How effectively NIAC met its mission of identifying and nurturing such concepts, and how the federal government can foster continuing and future innovation through the development of advanced concepts, are discussed in the chapters that follow.
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