Tag: 100 Year Starship
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darpa to award 100yr starship seed money on 11/11/11
Why not spend your free time designing interstellar spacecraft? Andreas Tziolas, director of Project Icarus, believes your hobby could help us get to the next star. DARPA plans to award “some organization roughly $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take – organizationally, technically, sociologically and ethically – to send humans to…
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onboard for 100 year starship
Director of Technology Tactical Office at DARPA, David Neyland makes recruitment pitches in search of those who want to do basic scientific research. A Universe Today article notes, “DARPA is known for its brand of ‘blue sky science’ where the scientific research they do might not have apparent and initial real-world applications.” Is the reason…