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NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lost-in-space dept.

cmansley writes "NASA Ames Director Simon Worden revealed that NASA Ames has 'just started a project with DARPA called the Hundred Year Starship,' with $1 million funding from DARPA and $100K from NASA. Worden said 'Larry [Page] asked me a couple weeks ago how much it would cost to send people one way to Mars and I told him $10 billion, and his response was, "Can you get it down to 1 or 2 billion?"'"

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  1. Re:yikes by saider · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, We'll be able to do it with the (finger to lip) One Million Dollars*

    *Contract to be negotiated will be a Cost-Plus with no penalty for overruns.

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  2. I like it by us7892 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The article has some interesting tidbits about electric planes. A quick read. Take a look.

    I would cut and paste a couple sentences here, but chrome+slashdot don't let me do that...

  3. Re:creators re-reveal newclear powered life on ear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, but I'm afraid the corepirates would come after me. What do you suggest?

  4. breath more, look around you, in the sky etc... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    consider failing to discount/reject/criticize, everything that doesn't match what you ?understand?, or the popular party LIEn, from time to time. you're already in the race, as an observer/noisy baggage? there's never a cover charge. that's something man'kind' made up, like greed, fear, & ego.