All receive a cash boost of around $125,000 from Nasa to fund research for nine months and can then apply to be selected from Phase II funding. "The NIAC program gives Nasa the opportunity to explore visionary ideas that could transform future Nasa missions by creating radically better or entirely new concepts while engaging America's innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey," said Jim Reuter, acting associate administrator of Nasa's Space Technology Mission Directorate. "The concepts can then be evaluated for potential inclusion into our early stage technology portfolio." Other schemes selected include a steam powered jumping robot named'Sparrow' capable of exploring icy ocean world's such as Saturn's moon Titan, which many experts believe holds the best chance for finding life in the galaxy.