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NIAC Award: Fueling a Human Mission to Mars
In-situ propellant-production is critical to the space architecture needed for a long-term human presence on Mars, future interplanetary transport, and eventually, multi-planet colonization. (Credits: Caroline Genzale)

NASA Innovative Advance Concepts (NIAC) Phase I Award
Amount: $125,000

Fueling a Human Mission to Mars

Caroline Genzale
Georgia Tech Research Corporation

As a multidisciplinary team of mechanical, aerospace, and biological engineers, we propose to co-develop a renewable, liquid, storage stable rocket propellant that can be produced and burned on Mars using bioorganisms to perform atmospheric in-situ resource utilization (ISRU).

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  • Parabolic Arc
  • April 22, 2020