100 Year Starship Symposium

DARPA is hosting the 100 Year Starship Symposium in Orlando from Sept. 30th – Oct. 2nd. It looks to be a fascinating three days of lectures and panels.  The agenda covers a wide range of topics, including propulsion systems, starship designs, biological/crew...

DARPA Seed Money for Starships

There is a good article in today’s New York Times announcing a new program by DARPA to invest in research for human interstellar travel. Talk about forward thinking investment. The awarding of that grant, on Nov. 11 — 11/11/11 — is planned as the culmination of...

Postcards from Mars

Cool new photos from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it finishes a nearly three year journey across the surface of the planet to the Endeavor crater. It makes me long for the days when we talked with straight faces about sending humans to Mars....

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