Program of NASA Space technology selected for funding five projects, each of which is reportedly capable of making a small revolution in Astronautics.

In March, NASA made an appeal to offer a "sudden and unexpected" innovations that would "change the rules of the game", i.e. a significant impact on the efficiency and effectiveness" of space exploration.

Grants won the following projects, one neprivodimye and more curious another.

Representing and Exploiting Cumulative Experience with Objects for Autonomous Manipulation: the University of Massachusetts is going to give robots advanced artificial intelligence for a long space flights.

Lightweight High Performance Acoustic Suppression Technology Development: employees of the jet propulsion Laboratory of NASA promised to develop technology for the suppression of acoustic environments during startup. By reducing vibrations can be reduced and the number of pre-flight tests of onboard instruments.

Fast Light Optical Gyroscopes for Precision Inertial Navigation: a space flight Center NASA them. Marshall would like to improve technical characteristics of the navigation systems of spacecraft by improving the efficiency of existing gyroscopes a thousand times.

EHD-Based Variable Conductance Thermal Interface Material: the Boeing company will develop progovernmental materials for better insulation spacecraft.

Membrane Enabled Reverse Lung: the firm Oceaneering Space Systems assured the Committee that will provide the technology that will reduce the number of life support systems needed for the astronauts.

NASA explains that he chose had these projects, because they offer opportunities for overcoming critical technology barriers standing on the way of further progress of cosmonautics. In addition, if successful, will significantly reduce the cost of the state and the private sector.

The grants range from $125 million to $1.8 million In total by 2015 is planned to give developers approximately $6 million, is All part of another program aimed at creating a "desperately innovative technologies" (Game Changing Development Program).

Prepared according to NASA.