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 (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…
