NASA's 100-Year Starship Project Sets Sights on Interstellar Travel

NASA's 100-Year Starship Project Sets Sights on Interstellar Travel

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Shooting for the stars will first require a lot of down-to-Earth elbow grease, as NASA's new 100-Year Starship project illustrates. The effort, to journey between stars in the 2100s, began with a workshop and now is in the study phase.

NASA's Ames Research Center and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are collaborating on the $1 million 100-Year Starship Study, an effort to take the first step in the next era of space exploration.

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OK, one million dollars,,, I think it would cost much, much more than one million dollars.
But what do I know, nothing, I'm sure,,,, I keep staring at the statement,,, 100-Year Starship Study.
I guess their going to spend one million dollars to study how to build or just the how too's period?

I think we've waited long enough. let's get back into the space program and get to the Moon for a little of that Helium 3 or Gold or just to explore and learn.
We should have been on Mar's back in the early 80's along with other Nations.
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Funny how i just made the thread Time to leave earth, and then you come out and annouch this

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I like this threads title better. Time to leave earth? pshh

One thing I have often wondered about these proposed long term interstellar missions is: are we talking about the same people going out and then coming back (through induced stasis, or much greater life expectancy by then);
or are we talking about one set of folks heading out but their great great grandchildren coming back home with greetings from ET?

Because if it's the latter, why assume that the grandchildren have any interest in coming back at all. What's to stop
them from deciding to simply take the ship and sod off somewhere else, or go and live with the ETs, if there are any? Or what if the unnatural conditions and claustrophobic environment lead to half the following generation growing up a bit mentally unhinged, and not necessarily able to control an interstellar space mission?

Interstellar travel is almost a dream if we cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Some of those start might look close, but the closest one to our Sun is over 4 light years away. I mean I guess going the speed of light you could make it there in 4 years, but what do you think the odds are that we will have the technology to move at light speed in just 100 years? In the 50s they thought we would have flying cars and food in pill form by now, but what's the best new invention we've had recently? A car that reads your facebook status for you while driving? 3-D TV's? Psh, the future sucks.

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your post reminds me of the Lazarus Effect written by Frank Herbert which was an uterly boring book but a good incite to the possibilities of the human Psyche during long distance space exploration....If I for 1 ever left this planet in the current state the populace is in it would be a good riddance to bad rubbish and would love to find a new planet to settle....

they dont even have a spaceship to get man into orbit anymore...

And here's something else to bear in mind: whenever scientists start waffling on about what people are going to be doing in the future, they always seem to get it wrong. I'm 36, and I can remember as a ten year old in the mid 80s getting very excited watching shows like Tomorrow's World, where the boffins would tell us how wonderful Y2K would be, how we'd all be wearing bullet proof shiny foil jumpsuits, have robots do all the work, cars that fly and we'd
all have our holidays on the moon.

And yet now, here we are, and even in the future, nothing still seems to work!

They better start journeying between the stars now, there is already a global demand for more fossil fuels, oil will be harder to find and far more expensive to consume in a few more years, add that with global wars and catastrophes accelerating, By 2100 the civilized world will be collapsed with millions of people dying from famine and tainted water.

Originally posted by TupacShakur
Interstellar travel is almost a dream if we cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Some of those start might look close, but the closest one to our Sun is over 4 light years away. I mean I guess going the speed of light you could make it there in 4 years, but what do you think the odds are that we will have the technology to move at light speed in just 100 years? In the 50s they thought we would have flying cars and food in pill form by now, but what's the best new invention we've had recently? A car that reads your facebook status for you while driving? 3-D TV's? Psh, the future sucks.

Agreed!! but from what I've seen in the sky we are either WWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY farther along than TPTB tell us or we're being visited which still tells me we're probably in contact and are about to take leaps and bounds in Space Fairing Tech.

Originally posted by fatdad
they dont even have a spaceship to get man into orbit anymore...

If Virgin Industries has a jet that can go into Orbit I can 99.99% Guarantee our Military has at least 1

1 million dollars is NOT going to get you far in a Space program....

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Good point. What have you seen in the skies? I saw a triangle shaped UFO once, or at least I think I did. But what had me scratching my head is that it was heading exactly in the direction of the nearby small airport, so maybe I just saw a plane at a weird angle and somehow mistook it for a UFO.

Another thing to think about is that military technology has got to be way more advanced that civilian technology, because they get TONS of money in funding just to create crazy new gadgets and weapons that can probably shoot black holes and stuff like that.

Originally posted by CoincidenceX
1 million dollars is NOT going to get you far in a Space program....

I have to agree, one million dollars can't go that far.
Space,,, we need to be there and on the Moon living and building stations for our more advanced space craft.

It's about time that NASA did this hopefully they work with other space agencies as well to further this along. But knowing the old guard at NASA that won't happen. But it is high time they realize inter agency cooperation is not a bad thing for crying out loud.

Addendum: Not to mention cooperating with other companies like SPACE X and others.

Originally posted by TupacShakur
Interstellar travel is almost a dream if we cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Some of those start might look close, but the closest one to our Sun is over 4 light years away. I mean I guess going the speed of light you could make it there in 4 years, but what do you think the odds are that we will have the technology to move at light speed in just 100 years? In the 50s they thought we would have flying cars and food in pill form by now, but what's the best new invention we've had recently? A car that reads your facebook status for you while driving? 3-D TV's? Psh, the future sucks.

True...And 4.2 light years (distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star) if not traveling at light speed will take 18,000 years

Way to go NASA!. 100 Years huh?, lets try and do it in say, I don't know, ten maybe? 100 Years? why 100, why not 1000, why not 1,000,000, why even bother if your not serious? It should've been your #1 priority, every day, every hour, every minute NASA has been in existance!

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"In the last 20 years NASA has spent at least $21 billion, 7 percent of its budget, on canceled space transportation programs," Pace said.

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That's the money spent on projects that didn't make it off the ground!

To much wasted monies and to much wasted time.

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The trick seems to be to find some other means of propulsion besides rockets, which would never be able to accelerate a ship to velocities faster than that of light, the fundamental speed limit set by Einstein's General Relativity.
Read the part located in the: In the lab,,, That is a really good section too.
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