With NASA surfacing new ideas for funding of 30 new space research projects, there will be a potential growth and improvement of many factors in the space industry. This new funding brings about ways to protect astronauts from the dangerous deep space radiation, improving the spacesuit technology and also to eliminate space debris. As part of the NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts(NIAC), each of the proposals will be given an access to $100,000 as funding for a one year period.
The motive behind this new funding is to improve the current space mission operations that will ultimately bring in breakthroughs for the future of NASA's space missions. The factors that are included in this project is the usage of the three-dimensional printing technology that will create a planetary outpost and also in a way to fuel the future of the exploration missions including the use of nuclear and solar power.
With its operations spanning from 1998 to 2007, NIAC which is originally known as the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts is known to be an independant forum that acts as a countenance for the advanced approaches happening within NASA. Though it was put on a stay in the year 2008 , it emerged for a fiscal policy in the year 2011 in order to investigate its goals of far reaching advanced ideas as part of the agency's mission.