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Neil Armstrong: One Small Friendship Remembered 27 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
Neil McAleer is probably best known in these pages for his fine biography Visionary: The Odyssey of Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke Project, 2012), but this is just one of his titles. In fact, his book The O...
Interstellar Studies in Context 26 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
With the beginning of a new week it’s time to ponder how best to move forward with coverage not only of the recent Starship Congress in Dallas, but the upcoming 100 Year Starship Symposium in Houston....
A Light Bridge to Nearby Stars 23 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
by Charles Quarra Charles Quarra tells me that like many kids who grow up dreaming about the stars, he realized early on that a career in physics would make sense. A book-filled childhood helped fix ...
Sailcraft: Uses of the Beam 22 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
I’m always on the lookout for practical ways to use solar sails. We think long-term here and interstellar flight is the topic, but the other side of that coin is that we need to see incremental progre...
The Path to Beamed Sails 21 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
Several years ago in Italy Les Johnson told me that he had once had the coolest job description in NASA. And I remember those days in the early 2000s when I was just beginning to investigate interstel...
Key Issues for Interstellar Sails 20 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
The evening after Jim Benford’s Starship Congress talk on his solar sail lab work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a small group of sail advocates joined him in the Hilton Anatole’s top floor restaur...
The Sail Comes to Texas 19 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
Low clouds had descended upon Dallas when I landed at Love Field, and by the time I got to the Hilton Anatole for the Starship Congress being hosted by Icarus Interstellar, the city outside was swathe...
Starship Congress in Dallas 14 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
Starship Congress, toward which I am headed as you read this, begins on Thursday. In the nine years and counting that I’ve been writing Centauri Dreams, I’ve been happy to see how many conferences hav...
Earthbound Tests for Titan Lake Lander 13 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
As we saw last week, touching down on Europa is going to be a tricky maneuver, at least based on the surface mapping we have so far, where boulders show up all the way down to the limits of resolution...
Alpha Centauri Prize Announced 12 Aug 2013 | 06:16 pm
As we approach Starship Congress in Dallas, the Institute for Interstellar Studies has announced the creation of the Alpha Centauri Prize Awards, the first of which will be the ‘Progenitor Award,’ to ...
