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Woman
astronaut to head 100-year Starship project
Monday January 09, 2012 05:58:22 PM,
IANS
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London:
Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go into space in
1992, has been chosen to head the 100-year Starship project.
Jemison's project will explore what it would take for a
multi-generational mission beyond the solar system.
Jemison, 55, played a key role in setting up the 100-year Starship
symposium organised last year by the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) and the Pentagon's Defence Advanced
Research Projects Agency in Florida, US.
That led to the award of a $500,000 contract by the agency to
study what is needed for long-term projects such as interstellar
space missions, reports the Daily Mail.
With the money in the bank, Jemison's group, the Houston-based
Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, now has to take on the
challenge of building a programme that can last 100 years which
hopefully will result in a Starship.
The foundation has teamed with Icarus Interstellar and the
Foundation for Enterprise Development. Adam Crowl, director of
Icarus Interstellar, said: "Project Icarus will be producing
designs and doing basic research with the common goal of building
the technical foundation required for eventual successful
interstellar flight."
"Together we'll be working towards an organisation that will last
100 years and produce a viable interstellar technology, with
benefits for all humankind," he added.
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