Icy Moons Propellant Harvester In addition, eight projects were selected for continuation into Phase II: Bradford, John: Advancing Torpor Inducing Transfer Habitats for Human Stasis to Mars Engblom, William: Flight Demonstration of Novel Atmospheric Satellite Concept Kirtley, David: Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters Lubin, Philip: Directed Energy for Interstellar Study Rovey, Joshua: Experimental Demonstration and System Analysis for Plasmonic Force Propulsion Skelton, Robert: Tensegrity Approaches to In-Space Construction of a 1g Growable Habitat Ulmer, Melville: Further Development of Aperture: A Precise Extremely Large Reflective Telescope Using Re-configurable Elements Youngquist, Robert: Cryogenic Selective Surfaces 2017 NIAC Project Selections The fifteen projects selected for Phase I were: Adam Arkin: A Synthetic Biology Architecture to Detoxify and Enrich Mars Soil for Agriculture John Brophy: A Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture for Interstellar Precursor Missions John-Paul Clarke : Evacuated Airship for Mars Missions Heidi Fearn: Mach Effects for In Space Propulsion: Interstellar Mission Benjamin Goldman : Pluto Hop, Skip, and Jump Global Jason Gruber: Turbolift Kevin Kempton : Phobos L1 Operational Tether Experiment (PHLOTE) Michael LaPointe: Gradient Field Imploding Liner Fusion Propulsion System John Lewis : Massively Expanded NEA Accessibility via Microwave-Sintered Aerobrakes Jay McMahon: Dismantling Rubble Pile Asteroids with AoES (Area-of-Effect Soft-bots) Raymond Sedwick: Continuous Electrode Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Joel Sercel: Sutter: Breakthrough Telescope Innovation for Asteroid Survey Missions to Start a Gold Rush in Space Slava Turyshev: Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission Robert Youngquist: Solar Surfing Nan Yu: A direct probe of dark energy interactions with a solar system laboratory In addition, seven projects were selected for continuation into Phase II: Ratnakumar Bugga: Venus Interior Probe Using In-situ Power and Propulsion (VIP-INSPR) Gary Hughes: Remote Laser Evaporative Molecular Absorption Spectroscopy Sensor System Siegfried Janson: Brane Craft Phase II Chris Mann: Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Jonathan Sauder: Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) Joel Sercel: Optical Mining of Asteroids, Moons, and Planets to Enable Sustainable Human Exploration and Space Industrialization Stephanie Thomas: Fusion-Enabled Pluto Orbiter and Lander 2018 NIAC Project Selections The sixteen projects selected for Phase I were: Aliakbar Aghamohammadi: Shapeshifters from Science Fiction to Science Fact: Globetrotting from Titan's Rugged Cliffs to its Deep Seafloors David Akin: Biobot: Innovative Offloading of Astronauts for More Effective Exploration Jeffrey Balcerski: Lofted Environmental and Atmospheric Venus Sensors (LEAVES) Sigrid Close: Meteoroid Impact Detection for Exploration of Asteroids (MIDEA) Christine Hartzell: