Nasa has awarded cash to 28 proposals, for forward-thinking concepts that wouldn't be out of place in a science fiction movie. That includes a system that could autonomously make concrete on Mars and a landsailing rover that would speed over the surface of Venus.
It's part of the Nasa Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, where the space agency funds ideas that might be used in space exploration a decade or more from now.
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/06/nasa-niac-concepts
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