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Starship Congress Warps Into Dallas This Week: How to Watch Online
by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com Staff Writer
August 14, 2013
The next 50 years of spaceflight will carry many challenges and surprises for explorers hoping to extend their reach into the cosmos. But it will also likely hold untapped riches for space science and spinoff technology that could, one day, catapult human and robotic explores beyond our own solar system and outward to other stars.
Credit: NASA/Glenn Research Center
Scientists from around the world will descend on Dallas, Tex., Thursday (Aug. 15) for a summit aimed at understanding the major challenges to launching humanity on interstellar voyages across the universe.
The four-day Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress taking place from Aug. 15 through Aug. 18 is the "first-ever assemblage of international interstellar space science organizations and proponents," according to conference officials.
Speakers will give presentations about topics ranging from the technological development of ships capable of interstellar space travel to warp drive science. [Images: Amazing Visions of Interstellar Space Travel] www.space.com/14291-photos-future-interstellar-starship-visions-spaceflight.html
"I cannot imagine anything more provocative, anything more compelling, than turning our collective efforts to focus on making the breakthroughs in the engineering, science and economics necessary to make the long journey to the stars," Icarus Interstellar president Richard Obousy said in a statement. "I believe that an initiative of this magnitude will have such a long lasting and positive effect on our species that all past accomplishments will pale in comparison."
If you can't make it to the conference in person, you can watch live Starship Congress webcasts online on SPACE.com here, courtesy of Icarus Interstellar's YouTube page.
www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html
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Starship Congress Warps Into Dallas This Week: How to Watch Online
by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com Staff Writer
August 14, 2013
The next 50 years of spaceflight will carry many challenges and surprises for explorers hoping to extend their reach into the cosmos. But it will also likely hold untapped riches for space science and spinoff technology that could, one day, catapult human and robotic explores beyond our own solar system and outward to other stars.
Credit: NASA/Glenn Research Center
Scientists from around the world will descend on Dallas, Tex., Thursday (Aug. 15) for a summit aimed at understanding the major challenges to launching humanity on interstellar voyages across the universe.
The four-day Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress taking place from Aug. 15 through Aug. 18 is the "first-ever assemblage of international interstellar space science organizations and proponents," according to conference officials.
Speakers will give presentations about topics ranging from the technological development of ships capable of interstellar space travel to warp drive science. [Images: Amazing Visions of Interstellar Space Travel] www.space.com/14291-photos-future-interstellar-starship-visions-spaceflight.html
"I cannot imagine anything more provocative, anything more compelling, than turning our collective efforts to focus on making the breakthroughs in the engineering, science and economics necessary to make the long journey to the stars," Icarus Interstellar president Richard Obousy said in a statement. "I believe that an initiative of this magnitude will have such a long lasting and positive effect on our species that all past accomplishments will pale in comparison."
If you can't make it to the conference in person, you can watch live Starship Congress webcasts online on SPACE.com here, courtesy of Icarus Interstellar's YouTube page.
www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html
CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/22362-starship-congress-technology-webcasts.html