A joint NASA-Pentagon project, called the 100 Year Starship Study, aims to get inventive minds thinking about how human interstellar space travel can become a reality by next century.
The winner of the 100 Year Starship Study probably won't look like this, but who knows?
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A NASA center and the Pentagon's lead research group are striking financial flint to steel in hopes of sparking a sustained effort to make interstellar space travel a reality.
Skip to next paragraphOn Thursday, an official with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that the agency will award a $500,000 grant to the person or group who can lay out the most effective road map for financing and implementing a research and development program to lead to interstellar travel by early next century.
At that point, the government will bow out, leaving it up to the winner to turn the ideas on Powerpoint slides to a sustainable research program – one that also is likely to focus on the ethical, economic, and legal issues surrounding the prospect of launching humans to other stars.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..................
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