Congressional report calls for NASA to develop plan for interstellar mission
MAY 26, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029855
Science : On Monday, the US House of Representatives appropriations committee presented its first draft of the 2017 budget. Accompanying the budget was a report from the committee subpanel that oversees NASA. In the report, the subpanel calls for NASA to produce a technology assessment and conceptual road map within a year for an interstellar probe capable of reaching 10% of the speed of light. The report comes in the wake of the Breakthrough Starshot project , which proposes to use concentrated laser light to send tiny probes to other stars. The report does not say where funding for the NASA project will come from.
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