Hundred Year Starship
The Hundred Year Starship initiative has been announced in October 2010 by S. Pete Worden, the director of the NASA Ames Research Center. It was about sending settlers on a manned one-way mission to planet Mars to establish a long term Earth-supported colony. However, the emphasis changed later to a mission to send a mission to the closest star. The website has seen little development since 2017 and the project may be dead. Mars one had a similar concept but has been abandoned.
Former description
No documents about this initiative have been published by NASA as yet. There is only Pete Worden's announcement at the Long Conversation event in San Francisco, which was reported by a number of news organizations thereafter.[1] [2] [3][4]
The only reference on NASA's homepage is a link to an article on www.popsci.com. [5] [6]
It is said to be funded with $1 million by DARPA and another $100,000 by NASA, a sum that will be used to start detailed investigation and conceptual work. Worden believes the estimated cost of sending people one-way to Mars is about $10 billion.
Present description
The project description is on the Website (link). Although the website main page is updated to 2022, there has been no activity in the underlying pages since 2017.
References
- ↑ www.aolnews.com: NASA Planning One-Way Manned Mission to Mars
- ↑ www.dailymail.co.uk: The Hundred Year Starship: The Nasa mission that will take astronauts to Mars and leave them there forever
- ↑ timesofindia.indiatimes.com: Nasa mulling one-way manned Mars mission
- ↑ www.cbsnews.com: Suddenly, Lots of Talk About One-Way Missions to Space
- ↑ The only reference on NASA's homepage
- ↑ www.popsci.com: NASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship’ To Bring Humans to Other Worlds And Leave Them There Forever
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