100 Year Starship https://refractor.io/tag/100-year-starship/ 100 Year Starship en-AU Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:22:37 GMT The "Grand Challenge" of the 100 Year Starship https://refractor.io/space/the-grand-challenge-of-the-100-year-starship/ The faint red star in the center of the red circle is Proxima Centauri, the nearest star beyond our solar system (Photo: Skatebiker via Wikipedia)

We have officially begun our first mission to travel to distant galaxies ... slowly. It's been about 10 months since DARPA announced it had awarded seed funding to form an independent, non-governmental organization with the goal of pursuing human interstellar space flight within the next 100 years. Leaders from this "100 Year Starship" took to the stage recently at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, to talk a bit more about what it means to pursue such a "grand challenge."

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]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:22:37 GMT https://refractor.io/space/the-grand-challenge-of-the-100-year-starship/ Eric Mack