100 Year Starship

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The 100 Year Starship (100YSS) is a joint U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant project to a private entity. The goal of the study is to create a business plan that can foster the research and technology needed for interstellar travel within 100 years.[1][2][3] Annual symposia have been organized from 2011 to 2015.[4]

Origin[edit]

The 100 Year Starship effort was announced by NASA Ames Research Center director, Pete Worden in a talk at San Francisco's Long Conversation conference in October 2010.[5] In a DARPA press release officially announcing the effort,[6] program manager Paul Eremenko, who served as the study coordinator, explained that the endeavor was meant to excite several generations to commit to the research and development of breakthrough technologies to advance the eventual goal of interstellar space travel.[7]

Foundation[edit]

The 100 Year Starship study was the name of a one-year project to assess the attributes of and lay the groundwork for an organization that can carry forward the 100 Year Starship vision.[8][9]

The winning bid to spearhead the 100 Year Starship effort was the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, partnering with Icarus Interstellar and the Foundation for Enterprise Development, led by the American physician and former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison.[10][11] In 2013, the consortium was awarded a $500,000 grant for further work. The new organization maintains the organizational name 100 Year Starship.[12]

100 Year Starship Symposia[edit]

Before the solicitation for the foundation, the 100 Year Starship project was preceded by a conference held in Orlando, Florida, from September 30 to October 2, 2011, co-sponsored by DARPA and NASA, organized by DARPA's Tactical Technology Office director, David Neyland.[2][3] The conference included presentations on the technology, biology, physics, philosophy, sociology, and economics of interstellar flight.[8] Selected papers from the conference were published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.[clarification needed]

After the Jemison Foundation was named as winner of the grant, it organized a second symposium in 2012 in Houston. Papers on a number of subjects related to interstellar flight and organizational foundations were presented.[8] 2013 and 2014 Symposia were held in Houston,[13] and a fifth in November 2015.[14]

Canopus Awards[edit]

In 2015, the 100 Year Starship project hosted its first Canopus Awards for excellence in interstellar writing.[15] The winners were announced October 30, 2015 at the symposium:[16]

  • Previously Published Long-Form Fiction (40,000 words or more): InterstellarNet: Enigma by Edward M. Lerner (FoxAcre). ISBN 978-1936771646
  • Previously Published Short-Form Fiction (between 1,000 and 40,000 words): “The Waves” by Ken Liu (Asimov's 12/12)
  • Original Fiction (1,000–5,000 words): “Everett's Awakening” by Yelcho (i.e. R. Buckalew)
  • Original Non-Fiction (1,000–5,000 words): “Finding Earth 2.0 from the Focus of the Solar Gravitational Lens” by Louis Friedman & Slava Turyshev

A second Canopus Award competition was run in 2019.[17]

  • In the category of “PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED LONG-FORM FICTION”the winner isThe Three-Body Problemby Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu (published by Tor)
  • In the category of “PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED SHORT-FORM FICTION” the winner is “Slow Bullets” by Alastair Reynolds (published by Tachyon Publications)
  • In the category of “PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED NONFICTION” the winner is Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne Dyson (published by National Geographic)
  • In the category of “ORIGINAL FICTION” the winner is “The Quest for New Cydonia” by Russell Hemmell
  • In the category of “ORIGINAL NON-FICTION” the winner is “Microbots—The Seeds of Interstellar Civilization” by Robert Buckalew
  • In the category of “ORIGINAL COLLEGE WRITING” the winner is “A Kingdom of Ends” by Ryan Burgess

Criticism[edit]

The 100 Year Starship was named in 2012 by U.S. Senator Tom Coburn as one of the 100 most wasteful government spending projects. Coburn specifically cited a 100 Year Starship workshop that included one session, entitled "Did Jesus Die for Klingons Too?" that debated the implications for Christian philosophy should life be found on other planets.[18][19]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Overbye, Dennis (August 18, 2011). "Offering Funds, U.S. Agency Dreams of Sending Humans to Stars". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b Chang, Kenneth (October 17, 2011). "Not Such a Stretch to Reach for the Stars". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 May 2014. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. ^ a b Belfiore, Michael (September 30, 2011). "To Infinity and Beyond at DARPA's 100-Year Starship Symposium". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 21 May 2014. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. ^ https://100yss.org/symposium/nexus. Retrieved 15 February 2021. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ Brandon, John (October 29, 2010). "Is NASA Covering Up the 100-Year Starship?". FoxNews.com. Retrieved 18 June 2014. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  6. ^ "DARPA/NASA Seek to Inspire Multigenerational Research and Development". Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  7. ^ Page, Lewis (November 3, 2010). "DARPA, NASA team on '100-Year Starship' project: plan to invent Heinlein style miracle nonprofit first". The Register. Retrieved 18 June 2014. The 100-Year Starship study will examine the business model needed to develop and mature a technology portfolio enabling long-distance manned space flight a century from now. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  8. ^ a b c "100 Year Starship Study™ 2012 Public Symposium" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 27, 2012. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  9. ^ "The 100-Year Starship Study" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2011. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  10. ^ Weinberger, Sharon (5 January 2012). "Former astronaut to lead starship effort". BBC News. Retrieved 21 May 2014. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  11. ^ Gilster, Paul (6 January 2012). "100 Year Starship Winner Announced". Centauri Dreams. Retrieved 28 August 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  12. ^ Andersen, Ross (February 2012). "Project Icarus: Laying the Plans for Interstellar Travel". The Atlantic. Retrieved 28 August 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  13. ^ "100 Year Simposium 2014". 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2014-05-25. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  14. ^ "100 Year Starship symposium". www.nibib.nih.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-01-02. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  15. ^ "100 Year Starship Celebrates Halloween Eve Awarding First Interstellar Writing Prize During Science Fiction Stories Night". 100yss.org. 20 October 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-08-13. Retrieved 28 August 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  16. ^ "Locus Online News » Canopus Award Winners". www.locusmag.com. Retrieved 2015-11-02. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  17. ^ https://www.100yss.org/news/press. Retrieved 19 February 2021. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ^ "Pentagon wants to know: 'Did Jesus die for Klingons too?' - Washington Times". www.washingtontimes.com.
  19. ^ Javers, Eamon (Nov 15, 2012). "Did Jesus Die for Klingons, Too? The Pentagon Wants to Know". www.cnbc.com.

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