Daily Archives: October 17, 2011
Not Such a Stretch to Reach for the Stars
CONCEPT An Icarus Interstellar design for an unmanned probe uses decades of technological advances to build on a 1970s British project called Daedalus. By KENNETH CHANG It may seem a fantastical notion, but hardly more so than the idea of building a starship of any kind, especially with NASA’s future uncertain at best. Yet here in Orlando, not [...]