
Fostering Visions for the Future
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was formed in 1998 to provide an independent source of advanced aeronautical and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and conducts its missions. Until the program''s termination in August 2007, NIAC provided an independent open forum, a high-level point of entry to NASA for an external community of innovators, and an extern...
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was formed in 1998 to provide an independent source of advanced aeronautical and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and conducts its missions. Until the program''s termination in August 2007, NIAC provided an independent open forum, a high-level point of entry to NASA for an external community of innovators, and an extern...

