Location
Radisson Resort at the Port, Convention Center, Martinique Room
Start Date
3-5-2001 1:00 PM
Description
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was established in 1998 for the explicit purpose of being an independent source of revolutionary aeronautical and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and conducts its mission. The institute is to provide a highly visible, recognized and high-level entry point for outside thinkers and researchers. The purpose of the NIAC is to provide an independent, open forum for the external analysis and definition of space and aeronautics advanced concepts to complement the advanced concepts activities conducted within the NASA Enterprises. The NIAC has advanced concepts as its sole focus. It addresses revolutionary concepts - specifically systems and architectures -that can have a major impact on missions of the NASA Enterprises in the time frame of 10 to 40 years in the future. It generates ideas for how the current NASA Agenda can be done better; it expands our vision of future possibilities. This paper describes NIAC, the projects undertaken to date, and opportunities for the future.
Paper Session III-C - The Next 50 Years: NIAC Leading the Way into the 21st Century
Radisson Resort at the Port, Convention Center, Martinique Room
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was established in 1998 for the explicit purpose of being an independent source of revolutionary aeronautical and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and conducts its mission. The institute is to provide a highly visible, recognized and high-level entry point for outside thinkers and researchers. The purpose of the NIAC is to provide an independent, open forum for the external analysis and definition of space and aeronautics advanced concepts to complement the advanced concepts activities conducted within the NASA Enterprises. The NIAC has advanced concepts as its sole focus. It addresses revolutionary concepts - specifically systems and architectures -that can have a major impact on missions of the NASA Enterprises in the time frame of 10 to 40 years in the future. It generates ideas for how the current NASA Agenda can be done better; it expands our vision of future possibilities. This paper describes NIAC, the projects undertaken to date, and opportunities for the future.
