NIAC: A short history and status of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program
With Ron Turner
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program nurtures visionary ideas that could transform future aerospace missions with the creation of breakthroughs — radically better or entirely new aerospace concepts — while engaging America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey. NIAC is unique within NASA. It is a program that values both technical acumen and imagination, inspired by curiosity and the quest for knowledge. NIAC encourages innovators to be creative and attempt great leaps forward in aerospace. NIAC studies explore innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts that could one day “Change the Possible” in aerospace. This talk provides some background on NIAC’s history and status.