Amazing Technology at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

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🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Here’s our sampling of the leading edge research presented by NIAC Fellows at NASA’s 2021 virtual gathering.

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0:00.0	Is it a glimpse of our future in space?
0:04.0	The 2021 NIAC Symposium this week on Planetary Radio.
0:12.0	Welcome, I'm At Kaplan of the Planetary Society,
0:15.0	with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:19.0	A special episode this week in spite of the fact that I'm on vacation.
0:24.0	Though we had hoped to gather in person over three days in September,
0:28.0	the annual Symposium of NIAC Fellows forged ahead in the virtual world.
0:33.0	It was my honor to once again host several of the fellows and other participants
0:38.0	during nine breaks in the action.
0:41.0	You'll hear highlights of those conversations today.
0:44.0	NIAC is the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program,
0:48.0	and I think you'll agree that it lives up to its name.
0:52.0	We'll follow this dive into the leading or bleeding edge of space tech
0:56.0	with yet another WhatsApp update from Bruce Betts.
1:00.0	I can't share headlines from the downlake with you because I produced this episode days ago,
1:04.0	but that doesn't prevent you from visiting planetary.org slash downlake.
1:10.0	To see the latest edition of the Planetary Society's newsletter.
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1:16.0	You can also have it conveniently delivered to your inbox as I do, and it's always free.
1:22.0	We'll start our NIAC visit with an overview from the person who leads the program.
1:27.0	Jason Darlith is the NIAC Program Executive at NASA Headquarters.
1:32.0	He was the opening speaker at this year's Symposium.
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