NIAC Rises From The Dead to Make Time's Best Inventions Of The Year

Spandex Space Suit, The Best Inventions Of The Year, Time

“With manned space exploration in the doldrums, maybe what NASA needs is a new outfit for its astronauts. Enter Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics at MIT, who is developing the Bio-Suit. It’s a formfitting space suit made of elastic polymers that improve mobility.”

Editor’s note: Alas, Time magazine has honored a project of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts. Earlier this year Mike Griffin made a stupid decision and killed NIAC – and work on all these advanced concepts came to a halt.

Killing NIAC, earlier post