Most Bizarre Projects Made by NASA

US space agency (NASA), to put it mildly, not a curse. It receives from the US authorities huge budgets that spend, including rather unusual projects. Today we tell about the 10 most bizarre of them.

Two-armed manipulator Dextre. In films such as the Oscar-winning "Gravity" we saw accidents when astronauts working outside of the ship, for whatever reason, take into open space. That's for the safety of people and established NASA ISS two-armed robot named Dextre.

However, Dextre is the development of Canadian experts, for which he earned the nickname "The Canadian arm." It is a robot height of 3.5 meters and a weight of 1700 pounds. This device has a "trunk" and two very flexible "hands" that can perform many of even the smallest and complex manipulations. With Dextre can spend a huge amount of types of work in open space without the need to go there astronauts. Now living people can manage unloading modules or repairing the equipment inside the space station.

Revolutionary aircraft Supersonic Bidirectional Flying Wing.

Supersonic Bidirectional Flying Wing is a concept aircraft, which in the future can make a real revolution in aviation. Because now the dimensions of the wing, the lift capacity, mobility and speed of the aircraft are closely interrelated, and Supersonic Bidirectional Flying Wing may allow to overcome the existing limitations in our time in this regard.

Theoretically, a giant wing Supersonic Bidirectional Flying Wing aircraft will allow to be very mobile and fast rising while sufficiently large loads at high altitudes. Because NASA and decided to invest in the further development of this project, 100 thousand dollars.

Vegetable Farm in Space.

Lack of food in space flights over long distances is theoretically possible to compensate by growing the add directly to the spacecraft. The idea of ​​space truss is a major grocery rassmatrivemyh decisions to ensure the future Mars missions NASA. Already in 2014, on the International Space Station began the first experiments on the cultivation of food. However, these vegetables after aging will not get on the table astronauts. They will be delivered to Earth for study on the subject of safety for consumption, because scientists have great concerns about the impact of these products on the cosmic radiation.

Invincible Robot Super Ball Bot. Super Ball Bot is a project of the robot with a unique structure, which will help him to be virtually immune to external influences, including, and a fall from a height of hundreds of kilometers.

Super Ball Bot a spherical structure of interconnected rods, which can be easily and rapidly change position relative to each other. It can compress and decompress, and to walk on rough terrain. Plan to use the robot, based on the concept of Super Ball Bot, and in the study of Saturn called Titan. Flies past space capsule will throw it on the surface of an object from a height of 100 kilometers, after which the robot will land itself and begin its work.

Rig Europa Drill.

Astrophysicists believe that the greatest chance of finding life in the solar system beyond Earth exists on Jupiter's moon Europa. This space object has an ocean of fresh water, hidden under his solid ice cap thickness of 30 kilometers.

Europa Drill Project aims to deliver on Europe setting that could drill the ice and reach the ocean under the ice to explore its search for organic compounds. NASA is ready to annually allocate $ 15 million for the development of this project, including the creation of an entirely innovative rig capable of operating in a million kilometers from Earth. Launch it into space is planned for 2022.

Miniature satellites Zemli.

Tehnologii not stand still is digital devices become more powerful and compact. Regarding this and the space industry. Nowadays, in most cases, where previously run more satellites, now you can do quite compact and even tiny devices.

The US space agency said that in the future plans to focus on launching into orbit a plurality of miniature satellites for a variety of purposes. The dimensions of these devices are comparable with the fist of an adult, and even a ping pong table.

This idea resonates with kraudfandingovym project SkyCube, implemented in 2012-2014 through the website Kickstarter.

Maustronavty is mice-astronauts. Medications knowingly Try first on mice and rats, and therefore already in public. After all, between the two species have much in common, and that is helpful or harmful to the rodent, for the most part just as useful or harmful to humans. This applies to the influence of the cosmos on the astronaut long stay in orbit.

In May 2014 NASA sent into orbit the first batch of live mice maustronavtov (combining the words mouse and astronaut). Researchers have determined that this animal is ideal for studying the consequences of the organism's life in orbit. After all, these rodents can live up to two years, that is, during a six-month spaceflight is about a quarter of their life, twenty years in human terms. Return to orbit the mouse will fall into the hands of the scientists in the world, which will explore the lasting influence of space on living organisms.