These cutting-edge ideas are being considered by NASA for its upcoming missions
These cutting-edge ideas are being considered by NASA for its upcoming missions
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USA: Many cutting-edge ideas that can be applied to upcoming space missions have been put forth as part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) programme, from building pipelines on the Moon to cultivating Martian bricks.
Each of the 14 research groups, 10 of which are first-time NIAC recipients, has received funding totaling $175,000.

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1. Planetary scientist Quinn Morley of Planet Enterprises has proposed the TitanAir project, which calls for building a "flying boat" that can travel through Titan's atmosphere and oceans, which are rich in nitrogen and methane. The probe, which can change from a watercraft to an aircraft, will take atmospheric samples as well as liquid samples for analysis. It has been envisioned carrying out flights.

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2.  It has also been proposed to use a propulsion system based on pellets to launch heavy spacecraft into the solar system and even beyond it. In less than a year and roughly three years, respectively, the proposed concept will be able to transport payloads to the outer planets and to distances greater than 100 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

3. Establishing a long-lasting sustainable presence on the Moon is one of NASA's main objectives for the Artemis programme, and the space agency plans to use local resources like water ice and oxygen extracted from the lunar regolith (soil). A pipeline from the lunar south pole, where the majority of the Moon's water-ice is located, is what Houston's Peter Curreri of Lunar Resources suggests doing.

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4. We will need settlements if we plan to send people to Mars. According to Congrui Grace Jin from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "habitat outfitting can be realised by in-situ construction using cyanobacteria and fungi as building agents" rather than "shipping prefabricated outfitting elements to Mars." The microbes will aid in breaking down Martian regolith into component parts that can be put together to form different structures.

The Phase 1 preliminary studies, which must be finished in nine months, include the proposed concepts. Not "official NASA missions," they are not. Phase II, which will give the research teams more funding and two more years to develop their concepts, will choose some of these concepts. Only a select few will then be chosen for Phase III.

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