The 12 selected concepts, along with their principal investigators, are:
— Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Propulsion System (Rob Adams, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
— Torpor-Inducing Transfer Habitat For Human Stasis To Mars (John Bradford, Spaceworks Engineering, Inc.)
— Two-Dimensional Planetary Surface Landers (Hamid Hemmati, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
— Dual-mode Propulsion System Enabling CubeSat Exploration of the Solar System (Nathan Jerred, Universities Space Research Association)
— Growth Adapted Tensegrity Structures: A New Calculus for the Space Economy (Anthony Longman)
— Eternal Flight as the Solution for 'X' (Mark Moore, NASA Langley Research Center)
— Deep Mapping of Small Solar System Bodies with Galactic Cosmic Ray Secondary Particle Showers (Thomas Prettyman, Planetary Science Institute)
— Biomaterials Out of Thin Air: In Situ, On-Demand Printing of Advanced Biocomposites (Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Center)
— Plasmonic Force Propulsion Revolutionizes Nano/PicoSatellite Capability (Joshua Rovey, University of Missouri, Rolla)
— Transformers For Extreme Environments (Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
— 10-Meter Sub-Orbital Large Balloon Reflector (Christopher Walker, University of Arizona)
— Low-Mass Planar Photonic Imaging Sensor (Ben Yoo, University of California, Davis)
