DARPA Starship project ready to kick off

DARPA, an arm of the Pentagon, has just rolled out the official solicitation for its “100 Year Starship” project that has the intention of sending human beings to space, letting them enjoy interstellar voyages within this coming century? Of course, what you see above is the Star Destroyer from the Star Wars space opera, and I sure as heck wonder just how a future starship would look like. I would have preferred a more organic design like that of the Mon Calamari cruisers.

So far, there is just a very small amount of US government seed money handed by DARPA to the tune of $500,000 in order to achieve the project’s success. It does seem as though it will take plenty of clout within the US government and the public to have a project of this magnitude take off. Do you think that this particular starship project will be able to take off eventually? Even so, how many of us are able to afford the airfare – wait a minute, the space fare when such a trip exists?

Edwin Kee
Categories: Transportation
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