DARPA Solicits Ideas For Its Hundred-Year Starship Project

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 16:00 in Astronomy & Space

Are you a space entrepreneur bored with the idea of four-minute suborbital flights? Why not design the 100-Year Starship instead? DARPA and NASA are looking for your ideas. The military's research wing issued a request for information Tuesday, seeking ideas and information for its 100-Year Starship project. The agency wants to identify groups interested in working on a business model for such a project, which could someday enable long-term human settlement of the cosmos. Related ArticlesNASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship' To Bring Humans to Other Worlds And Leave Them There ForeverNASA and DARPA Want a "100-Year Starship," As Long as They Don't Have to Build ItWe Won't Have Enough Power For Interstellar Travel Until At Least 2211, According to New CalculationsTagsScience, Rebecca Boyle, 100 years, 100-year starship, darpa, deep space exploration, nasa, space travel, starshipsWe first heard about the concept last year when NASA's Pete Worden, director of the Ames...

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