NASA Grant Award to Tau Zero Foundation

[Doug Loss]

NASA Grant Award to Tau Zero Foundation

NASA has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Tau Zero Foundation for a 3-year study titled “Interstellar Propulsion Review.” Unlike prior studies, which were based on a specific mission concept, this study is an overall comparison between the different motivations, challenges, and approaches to interstellar flight. The work is split into three major 1-year phases:

1. Create an interstellar work breakdown structure (WBS) tailored to the divergent challenges and potentially disruptive prospects of interstellar flight in a manner that will allow for ‘level-playing-field’ comparisons. Prior mission and project information will be used to populate this first WBS.

2. Identify and work with subject matter experts to populate the WBS with their most recent reliable data.

3. Analyze uploaded data to identify (1) the most consequential knowledge gaps and (2) recommend research. Once all these phases are completed, the tools and methods are available to repeat the assessments as needed.

(More at site)

[driftdiver]

NASA Grant Award to Tau Zero Foundation

NASA has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Tau Zero Foundation for a 3-year study titled “Interstellar Propulsion Review.” Unlike prior studies, which were based on a specific mission concept, this study is an overall comparison between the different motivations, challenges, and approaches to interstellar flight. The work is split into three major 1-year phases:

1. Create an interstellar work breakdown structure (WBS) tailored to the divergent challenges and potentially disruptive prospects of interstellar flight in a manner that will allow for ‘level-playing-field’ comparisons. Prior mission and project information will be used to populate this first WBS.

2. Identify and work with subject matter experts to populate the WBS with their most recent reliable data.

3. Analyze uploaded data to identify (1) the most consequential knowledge gaps and (2) recommend research. Once all these phases are completed, the tools and methods are available to repeat the assessments as needed.

(More at site)

Heck they could get this for free at any Star Trek convention.

[Doug Loss]

Heck they could get this for free at any Star Trek convention.

The difference is that Tau Zero and TVIW are serious about this.  We're not talking about "pew pew," but about bending tin.

[Oceander]

Interesting. 

[kevindavis007]

Not a big deal.. I don't mind the Government spending money on something like this..



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[kevindavis007]

Heck they could get this for free at any Star Trek convention.

Do we really need to advice from people still living in their parents basement??

[Oceander]

Do we really need to advice from people still living in their parents basement??

Depends on why they're still living there, doesn't it?

[sneakypete]

Do we really need to advice from people still living in their parents basement??

@kevindavis

HEY! Most of those people are homeowners now!

Granted,it's because their parents died off and left them the homes,but they are still homeowners.

[geronl]

$500k for a thought project is ridiculous

[sneakypete]

$500k for a thought project is ridiculous

@geronl

How do you figure that,when EVERY advancement has been made by somebody saying "Hmmm,I wonder.......?"