{"id":91962,"date":"2019-06-12T04:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-invests-in-concepts-aimed-at-exploring-craters-mining-asteroids"},"modified":"2019-06-12T04:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:42:55","slug":"nasa-invests-in-concepts-aimed-at-exploring-craters-mining-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-invests-in-concepts-aimed-at-exploring-craters-mining-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"NASA Invests in Concepts Aimed at Exploring Craters, Mining Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-invests-in-concepts-aimed-at-exploring-craters-mining-asteroids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robotically surveying lunar craters in record time and mining resources in space could help NASA establish a sustained human presence at the Moon \u2013 part of the agency\u2019s broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/moon2mars\/\">Moon to Mars exploration<\/a> approach. Two mission concepts to explore these capabilities have been selected as the first-ever Phase III studies within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/niac\">NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts<\/a> (NIAC) program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pursuing new technologies across our development portfolio that could help make deep space exploration more Earth-independent by utilizing resources on the Moon and beyond,\u201d said Jim Reuter, associate administrator of NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate. \u201cThese NIAC Phase III selections are a component of that forward-looking research and we hope new insights will help us achieve more firsts in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Phase III proposals outline an aerospace architecture, including a mission concept, that is innovative and could change what\u2019s possible in space. Each selection will receive as much as $2 million. Over the course of two years, researchers will refine the concept design and explore aspects of implementing the new technology. The inaugural Phase III selections are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-invests-in-tech-concepts-aimed-at-exploring-lunar-craters-mining-asteroids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotically surveying lunar craters in record time and mining resources in space could help NASA establish a sustained human presence at the Moon \u2013 part of the agency\u2019s broader Moon to Mars exploration approach. Two mission concepts to explore these capabilities have been selected as the first-ever Phase III studies within the NASA Innovative Advanced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}