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100 Year Starship® 2012 Public Symposium

Wednesday, 12. September 2012 - 11:57

100 Year Starship invites you to participate in the journey of a lifetime! On this mission, everyone has a seat – Thought leaders, experts, trendsetters, space advocates and space enthusiasts, international space agencies, established businesses and start-ups, financiers and entrepreneurs, governmental and non-governmental agencies, universities and private industries, including entertainment, medicine, education, the arts and athletics – and, of course, the general public. You are all invited to join us on a journey to improve our world today as we explore the challenge, benefits, potentially enabling technologies, strategies and awesome potential of interstellar flight to another solar (star) system.

From exotic propulsion systems, exoplanets and “where do we go?” to the social, economic and cultural considerations of “why or should we go?” there’s a technical or academic session just for you. In addition, workshops, classes, networking venues, the Expo, entertainment, celebrities, speakers and guests will enhance your experience and ensure that you have an opportunity to consider and contribute to the wide range of space and related topics needed to
chart the research, design, development, policy, outreach and aspirational activities from which
long-distance space travel will be generated.

Transition…

2012 is a year of crucial events in space exploration and human technological achievement. Milestones reached include:

The 50th anniversary of NASA’s Johnson Space Center • Retirement of the Space Shuttle Discovery to its new home at the Smithsonian Museum • Soyuz is the only constant human access to space • Successful docking at the International Space Station of a wholly commercial vehicle • Privately funded lunar landing competition established • Entrepreneurial ventures to mine asteroids announced • NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope characterizes exoplanets

These milestones, exhilarating and bittersweet, underscore the cusp upon which space exploration now stands.

To Transformation

This year, 2012, DARPA gave its stamp of approval to and seed funded — 100 Year Starship® (100YSS®) — a private organization to achieve perhaps the most daring initiative ever in space exploration: human travel beyond our solar system to another star!

Meeting the challenge of 100YSS® stands to be as, or even more transformative to our world, as Sputnik or commercialization of DARPA’s ARPA net, that became the Internet. Make no mistake; this is not your grandfathers’ space program.

http://symposium.100yss.org/

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