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Music lines and stores, subject to availability ends 14th of February. It's Friday, January 27th, 2023. I'm Jackson Bird today. Some wildly optimistic projects being funded by NASA, including more sustainable commercial aircrafts and

self-growing bricks on Mars. Plus, a new Shakespearean theater company whose performances all

take place inside of one of the world's most popular video games.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

It's a new year with hot and fresh new budget approvals,

so I thought it was time to check in on some of the more interesting projects NASA has coming down the pipeline. Or more specifically, research projects

which have recently been granted money via NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program, or

NIAC. Nyack is where some of the weirdest and most out-there ideas get their start. Wired calls them high-risk, high reward,

because a lot of them won't ever pan out, but the ones that do have the potential to be game-changers.

For example, while efforts to slightly boost a chemical rocket engine's efficiency would be laudable,

that's not far out enough for

the program. A proposal for a completely new system that could replace chemical rockets would

fit right in." End quote. The NIAC program works in three parts. First, phase one, in which

14 applicants, mostly U.S.-based academic researchers, are chosen to receive

$175,000 to conduct research and design prototypes for a year. A handful of them will make it

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