NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts
NASA’s Futuristic Projects: 3D Printed Spacesuits and Micro-Robot Swarms
Seeking visionary innovations that could propel space exploration, NASA has selected more than a dozen early-stage studies to evaluate technologies to support future aeronautics and off-Earth missions. Funded by the…
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program Seeks Submissions for Visionary Concepts
On Sunday, I attended Star Trek: Mission New York at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. One of the many celebratory events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the seminal science fiction…
AstroGro — The Self Sustainable 3D Printed Bio-farm For Space
Coming as a shock to no one, humans need to eat food. As NASA readies its (still decades-off) manned mission to Mars, one of the problems that need to be…
Build Giant Objects in Space With the Help of 3D Printing — Introducing The Trusselator
The Trusselator is aimed at creating, through the use of in-space additive manufacturing, a series of high-performance trusses to handle large solar arrays and antennas, and NASA says Tethers Unlimited…